Environmental changes reflected by n-alkanes of lake core in Nam Co on the Tibetan Plateau since 8.4 kaB.P.

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 3051-3057

  Lin, Xiao ^a,b   Zhu, LiPing ^a   Wang, Yong ^a,b   Wang, JunBo ^a   Xie, ManPing ^a,b   Ju, JianTing ^b,c   Mäusbacher, Roland ^d   Schwalb, Antje ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental changes; Lake sediments; N alkanes; Nam Co; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949125254     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0313-6     Document Type: Article

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