East Asian monsoon climate during the Late Pleistocene: High-resolution sediment records from the South China Sea

Marine Geology

Volumn 156, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 245-284

  Wang, L ^a   Sarnthein, M ^a   Erlenkeuser, H ^a   Grimalt, J ^b   Grootes, P ^a   Heilig, S ^a   Ivanova, E ^a   Kienast, M ^a   Pelejero, C ^b   Pflaumann, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b Ctr d'Investigacio i D   (Spain)

Author keywords

Global climate teleconnections; Late Pleistocene; Marine loess deposits; Paleoceanography South China Sea; Sub millennial climate periodicities; Variability of East Asian monsoon

Indexed keywords

MARINE SEDIMENT; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0033559368     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00182-0     Document Type: Article

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