Interannual, decadal and century scale climatic changes revealed by stalagmite records

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 416-421

  Tan, Ming ^a   Qin, Xiaoguang ^a   Liu, Dongsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Interannual to century scale; Stalagmite chronological table

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037573716     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02932694     Document Type: Article

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