Stable isotopic variations in modern herbivore tooth enamel, plants and water on the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for paleoclimate and paleoelevation reconstructions

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 260, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 359-374

  Wang, Yang ^a   Kromhout, Elizabeth ^a   Zhang, Chunfu ^a   Xu, Yingfeng ^a   Parker, William ^a   Deng, Tao ^b   Qiu, Zhuding ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Enamel; Paleoclimate; Paleoelevation; Precipitation; Stable isotopes; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DIET; ENAMEL; FOSSIL; HERBIVORE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOOTH;

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

ANIMALIA; BOS GRUNNIENS; CAPRA HIRCUS; CRASSULACEAE; EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 41149132107     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.11.012     Document Type: Article

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