Chronology of the shell bar section and a discussion on the ages of the Late Pleistocene lacustrine deposits in the paleolake Qarhan, Qaidam basin

Frontiers of Earth Science in China

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 225-235

  Zhang, Hucai ^a,b   Lei, Guoliang ^b   Chang, Fengqin ^b   Pu, Yang ^a   Fan, Hongfang ^b   Lei, Yanbin ^a   Yang, Mingsheng ^b   Zhang, Wenxiang ^b   Yang, Lunqing ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Qaidam basin; Shell bar section; Traditional and AMS dating

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SHELL; THORIUM ISOTOPE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN; QARHAN SALT LAKE; QINGHAI;

EID: 44649174895     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-008-0014-0     Document Type: Article

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