Climatic changes documented by stable isotopes of sedimentary carbonate in Lake Sugan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau of China, since 2 kaBP

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1930-1939

  Qiang, Mingrui ^a,b   Chen, Fahu ^b   Zhang, Jiawu ^b   Gao, Shangyu ^a   Zhou, Aifeng ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbonate; Climatic changes; Lake Sugan; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749833659     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/04wd0285     Document Type: Article

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