Luminescence-dated aeolian deposits of late Quaternary age in the southern Tibetan Plateau and their implications for landscape history

Quaternary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 421-430

  Lai, ZhongPing ^a,c   Kaiser, Knut ^b,c   Brückner, Helmut ^c  

^a QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^b German Academy of Science and Engineering   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aeolian deposits; Palaeoenvironmental change; Quartz luminescence dating; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUATERNARY;

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

EID: 70349736691     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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