Stable isotopic and mineralogical investigations of an arid Quaternary lacustrine palaeoenvironment, Western Qaidam, China

Geological Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 173-184

  Bojar, Ana Voica ^a   Rieser, Andrea ^b   Neubauer, Franz ^b   Bojar, Hans Peter ^c   Genser, Johann ^b   Liu, Yongjiang ^d   Ge, Xiao Hong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c Landesmuseum Joanneum ^*  (Austria)

^d JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbonates; Celestine; Hypersaline lacustrine environment; Qaidam; Quaternary; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

PALEOLIMNOLOGY; QUATERNARY;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; WORLD;

ARIDA;

EID: 22744441644     PISSN: 16417291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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