Evidence for an abrupt climatic reversal during the Last Interglacial on the northeast Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Quaternary International

Volumn 154-155, Issue , 2006, Pages 136-140

  Lu, Huayu ^a,d   Vandenberghe, Jef ^b   Miao, Xiaodong ^a   Tan, Hongbing ^c   Ma, Haizhou ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 33747625464     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2006.02.009     Document Type: Article

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