Late Quaternary river terrace sequences in the eastern Kunlun Range, northern Tibet: A combined record of climatic change and surface uplift

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 532-543

  Wang, An ^a   Smith, Jacqueline A ^b   Wang, Guocan ^a   Zhang, Kexin ^a   Xiang, Shuyuan ^a   Liu, Demin ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b The College of Saint Rose   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Kunlun Range; Quaternary; River terrace; Tibet; Uplift

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; QUATERNARY; RIVER TERRACE; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 58049192936     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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