A 25 m.y. isotopic record of paleodiet and environmental change from fossil mammals and paleosols from the NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 322-338

  Wang, Yang ^a   Deng, Tao ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Climate change; Oxygen isotopes; Paleodiet; Paleoecology; Tibetan Plateau; Tooth enamel

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC HISTORY; FOSSIL TOOTH ENAMEL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; PALEOSOLS;

CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES; CARBONATES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; ENAMELS; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC MINERALS;

OCEAN HABITATS;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; ENAMEL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MIOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; WORLD;

MAMMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 22144456366     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.006     Document Type: Article

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