Responses of Chinese desert lakes to climate instability during the past 45,000 years

Developments in Quaternary Science

Volumn 9, Issue C, 2007, Pages 11-24

  Wünnemann, Bernd ^a   Hartmann, Kai ^a   Janssen, Manon ^a   Zhang Hucai, C ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 53749095143     PISSN: 15710866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1571-0866(07)09003-3     Document Type: Review

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