Pollen records and time scale for the RM core of the Zoige Basin, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 553-562

  Shen, Caiming ^a,b   Tang, Lingyu ^a   Wang, Sumin ^c   Li, Chunhai ^a,c   Liu, Kam Biu ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; Pollen; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau; Time scale

Indexed keywords

ABIES; PICEA;

EID: 33749662320     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/04wd0209     Document Type: Article

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