A 14000-year record of paleoenvironmental change in the western basin of China's third largest lake, Lake Taihu

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 432, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 113-120

  Qu, Wenchuan ^a   Xue, Bin ^a   Dickman, M D ^b   Wang, Sumin ^a   Fan, Chengxin ^a   Wu, Ruijin ^a   Zhang, Pingzhong ^c   Chen, Jianfa ^c   Wu, Yanhong ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b Confluence Consulting Inc ^*  (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

14Ka; Lake reord; Lake sediment; Organic geochemistry; Paleoenvironmental evolution; Taihu Lake

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042230702     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1004079220926     Document Type: Article

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