Relief, soil and lost forests: Late Holocene environmental changes in southern Tibet under human impact

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 142, Issue , 2006, Pages 149-173

  Kaiser, Knut ^a   Miehe, Georg ^a   Schoch, Werner H ^b   Zander, Anja ^c   Schlütz, Frank ^d  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Labor für Quartäre Hölzer   (Switzerland)

^c Labor für Archäomeirie   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST CLEARANCE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOSOL; SEDIMENTATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KYICHU RIVER; XIZANG;

JUNIPERUS;

EID: 33751206760     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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