Holocene climate change in the Central Tibetan Plateau inferred by lacustrine sediment geochemical records

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1548-1555

  Wu, YanHong ^a   Lücke, Andreas ^b   Wünnemann, Bernd ^c   Li, ShiJie ^a   Wang, SuMin ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Tibetan Plateau; Hydrogen index (HI); Lacustrine sediment; Palaeoclimate; Stable carbon isotopic composition ( 13Corg)

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTS; SULFUR;

GEOCHEMICAL RECORDS; HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SULFUR; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 34548712906     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-007-0113-x     Document Type: Article

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