Diatom assemblages and quantitative reconstruction for paleosalinity from a sediment core of Chencuo Lake, southern Tibet

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 522-528

  Yang, Xiangdong ^a   Wang, Sumin ^a   Kamenik, C ^b   Schmidt, R ^b   Shen, Ji ^a   Zhu, Liping ^a   Li, Shengfeng ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chencuo Lake; Conductivity or salinity; Diatoms; Quantitative reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DESALINATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGY; LAKES; MOISTURE; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DIATOMS; LAKE SALINITY; LAKE WATER; SEDIMENT CORE;

BIODIVERSITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE; SALINITY;

ASIA; CHENCUO LAKE; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 5044221537     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/02yd0142     Document Type: Article

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