A record of temperature and monsoon intensity over the past 40 kyr from groundwater in the North China Plain

Chemical Geology

Volumn 259, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 168-180

  Kreuzer, Andreas M ^a   von Rohden, Christoph ^a   Friedrich, Ronny ^a   Chen, Zongyu ^b   Shi, Jiansheng ^b   Hajdas, Irka ^c   Kipfer, Rolf ^d,e   Aeschbach Hertig, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glacial cooling; Noble gas temperatures; Radiocarbon; Radiogenic helium; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

COOLING; GROUNDWATER; HELIUM ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MONSOON; NOBLE GAS; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RADIOCARBON DATING; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 59349118148     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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