Late Eocene pollen records and palaeoenvironmental changes in northern Tibetan Plateau

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1089-1098

  Miao, YunFa ^a,b   Fang, XiaoMin ^a,b   Song, ZhiChen ^c   Wu, FuLi ^a   Han, WenXia ^b   Dai, Shuang ^b   Song, ChunHui ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cooling; Eocene; Palaeoenvironment; Planetary arid zone; Pollen records; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

COOLING WATER; CURING; DRYING; VEGETATION;

ARIDIFICATION; EVOLUTION (CO); ICE-SHEETS; JIUQUAN; LATE EOCENE; NORTHWEST CHINA; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOVEGETATION; PALYNOFLORAS; PINACEAE; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WIND SYSTEMS;

WATER VAPOR;

ARID REGION; ARIDIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EOCENE; FLORA; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; SCRUB;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; JIUQUAN BASIN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

PINACEAE;

EID: 47949102921     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-008-0091-7     Document Type: Article

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