Early Pleistocene deposits and paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes in the Zanda basin, Ngari area, Tibet

Geology in China

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1276-1284

  Zhu, Da Gang ^a   Meng, Xian Gang ^a   Shao, Zhao Gang ^a   Yang, Chao Bin ^b   Han, Jian En ^a   Yu, Jia ^a   Meng, Qing Wei ^a   Lü, Rong Ping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b Department of Land and Resources of the Tibet Autonomous Region ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Climatic and environmental change; Earliest Pleistocene; Freeze and thaw fold; Sporopollen record; Zanda, Tibet

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; OSTRACOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; VEGETATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NGARI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG; ZANDA BASIN;

AMARANTHACEAE; ARTEMISIA; OSTRACODA; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 33847707879     PISSN: 10003657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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