Seasonal variations of dust record in the Muztagata ice cores

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2506-2512

  Wu, Guangjian ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a   Xu, Baiqing ^a   Tian, Lide ^a   Li, Zhen ^a   Duan, Keqin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dust; Ice core; Muztagata; Seasonal variations

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749096358     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0197-5     Document Type: Article

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