Tibetan uplift prior to the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition: Evidence from pollen analysis of the Xining Basin

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 987-990

  Dupont Nivet, G ^a   Hoom, C ^b   Konert, M ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC CO; CLIMATE TRANSITION; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HIGH ALTITUDE; HIMALAYAS; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; OLIGOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENTS; PALEOGENE; PALYNOLOGICAL ASSEMBLAGE; POLLEN ANALYSIS; PROXY RECORDS; ROCK WEATHERING; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS;

WEATHERING;

ARIDIFICATION; EOCENE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OLIGOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; UPLIFT;

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

EID: 63449085457     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25063A.1     Document Type: Article

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