The 'Little Ice Age' recorded by sediment chemistry in Lake Erhai, southwest China

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 925-931

  Chen, Jingan ^a   Wan, Guojiang ^a   Zhang, David Dian ^b   Chen, Zhenlou ^a   Xu, Jingyi ^a   Xiao, Tangfu ^a   Huang, Ronggui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; Chemical elements; Lake sediments; Monsoon; Palaeoclimate; Principal component analysis; Southwest China

Indexed keywords

LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

EID: 25444465916     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl863rr     Document Type: Article

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