Strengthened East Asian summer monsoons during a period of high-latitude warmth? Isotopic evidence from Mio-Pliocene fossil mammals and soil carbonates from northern China

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 443-452

  Passey, Benjamin H ^a   Ayliffe, Linda K ^a,b   Kaakinen, Anu ^c   Zhang, Zhaoqun ^d   Eronen, Jussi T ^c   Zhu, Yanming ^e   Zhou, Liping ^e   Cerling, Thure E ^a   Fortelius, Mikael ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

C4 vegetation; East Asian monsoon; fossil tooth enamel; stable isotopes; summer monsoon

Indexed keywords

C4 VEGETATION; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; FOSSIL TOOTH ENAMEL; STABLE ISOTOPES; SUMMER MONSOON;

CARBONATES; DENTISTRY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENAMELS; ISOTOPES; MAMMALS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; OCEAN HABITATS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

TOOTH ENAMEL;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; CLIMATE FORCING; FOSSIL RECORD; INTERGLACIAL; INTERSTADIAL; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLIOCENE; SOIL CARBON; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUMMER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

DICOTYLEDONEAE; MAMMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 58149279286     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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