Tibetan uplift intensified the 400 k.y. signal in paleoclimate records at 4 Ma

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1338-1344

  Nie, Junsheng ^a,b,c   King, John W ^a   Fang, Xiaomin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Benthic oxygen isotope; Eccentricity; Loess Plateau; Magnetic susceptibility; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC OXYGEN ISOTOPE; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAUX; CLIMATIC CYCLES; CLIMATIC SIGNALS; EARTH'S CLIMATES; EAST ASIAN MONSOONS; ECCENTRICITY; GLOBAL ICE VOLUMES; LOESS PLATEAU; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; PROXY RECORDS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OXYGEN;

SILT;

BENTHOS; CLIMATE CYCLE; ECCENTRICITY; ICE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 54849420319     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26349.1     Document Type: Article

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