Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Himalaya and Tibet

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 21-22, 2009, Pages 2150-2164

  Owen, Lewis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE GLACIER; DATING TECHNIQUES; GLACIAL ADVANCES; GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIMALAYAS; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATEGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; PLEISTOCENE; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; TIBETANS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIERS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CHRONOLOGY; DATING METHOD; GLACIATION; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUMERICAL METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; VALLEY GLACIER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; XIZANG;

EID: 69049087970     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.10.020     Document Type: Article

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