Monitoring Cenozoic climate evolution of northeastern Tibet: Stable isotope constraints from the western Qaidam Basin, China

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1063-1075

  Rieser, Andrea B ^a,d   Bojar, Ana Voica ^b   Neubauer, Franz ^a   Genser, Johann ^a   Liu, Yongjiang ^c   Ge, Xiao Hong ^c   Friedl, Gertrude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NAGRA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Evaporation; Intracontinental basin; Lacustrine carbonate; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; EOCENE; EVAPORATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OLIGOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; XIZANG;

EID: 67449113962     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-008-0304-5     Document Type: Article

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