Holocene climatic and environmental changes recorded in Baahar Nuur Lake core in the Ordos Plateau, Inner Mongolia of China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 959-966

  Guo, LanLan ^a   Feng, ZaoDong ^b,c   Li, XinQing ^d   Liu, LianYou ^a   Wang, LiXia ^e  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^e Provincial Environmental Quality Monitoring Administration   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Holocene; Lake sediments; Ordos Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247358586     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-007-0132-1     Document Type: Article

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