Climate changes in East China since the Late-glacial inferred from high-resolution mountain peat humification records

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 118-131

  Ma, ChunMei ^a   Zhu, Cheng ^a   Zheng, ChaoGui ^b,c   Yin, Qian ^a   Zhao, ZhiPing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chuzhou Normal College   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate changes; Dajiuhu of Shennongjia Mountains; Degree of humificatiom; Mountain peat; Qianmutian of Tianmu Mountains; The Holocene; The Late glacial

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DECAY (ORGANIC); GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CLIMATE CHANGES; DAJIUHU OF SHENNONGJIA MOUNTAINS; DEGREE OF HUMIFICATIOM; MOUNTAIN PEAT; QIANMUTIAN OF TIANMU MOUNTAINS; THE HOLOCENE; THE LATE-GLACIAL;

PEAT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; HUMIFICATION; LATE GLACIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ORGANIC MATTER; PALYNOLOGY; PEATLAND; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; SHENNONGJIA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 58549112030     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-009-0003-5     Document Type: Article

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