A dry episode during the Younger Dryas and centennial-scale weak monsoon events during the early Holocene: A high-resolution stalagmite record from southeast of the Loess Plateau, China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Cai, Binggui ^a   Edwards, R Lawrence ^b   Cheng, Hai ^b   Tan, Ming ^a   Wang, Xu ^a   Liu, Tungsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; MINERALS; OXYGEN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

HOLOCENE; MONSOON; STALAGMITE; STALAGMITE OXYGEN ISOTOPE;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

DRY SEASON; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; STALAGMITE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 40849120718     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030986     Document Type: Article

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