Palaeoglaciation of Bayan Har Shan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Glacial geology indicates maximum extents limited to ice cap and ice field scales

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 710-727

  Heyman, Jakob ^a   Stroeven, Arjen P ^a   Alexanderson, Helena ^a,b   Hättestrand, Clas ^a   Harbor, Jon ^c   Li, Yingkui ^d   Caffee, Marc W ^e   Zhou, Liping ^f   Veres, Daniel ^g   Liu, Feng ^f   Machiedo, Martin ^h  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g EMIL RACOVI INSTITUTE OF SPELEOLOGY   (Romania)

^h UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bayan Har; Glacial deposits; Glacial extent; Palaeoglaciology; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIATION; GLACIOLOGY; ICE CAP; ICE FIELD; ICE SHEET; MOUNTAIN REGION; VALLEY GLACIER;

ASIA; BAYAN HAR MOUNTAINS; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 70350173013     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1305     Document Type: Article

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