Late Quaternary environmental changes in the Taklamakan Desert, western China, inferred from OSL-dated lacustrine and aeolian deposits

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 923-932

  Yang, Xiaoping ^a   Preusser, Frank ^b,c   Radtke, Ulrich ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

AEOLIAN; TAKLAMAKAN DESERT; TARIM BASIN OF WESTERN CHINA;

SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 33646443636     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.06.008     Document Type: Article

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