The influence of climate, hydrology and permafrost on Holocene peat accumulation at 3500 m on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 27-28, 2009, Pages 3303-3314

  Large, David J ^a   Spiro, Baruch ^b   Ferrat, Marion ^c   Shopland, Michaela ^d   Kylander, Malin ^e   Gallagher, Kerry ^f   Li, Xiangdong ^g   Shen, Chengde ^h   Possnert, Goran ⁱ   Zhang, Gan ^h   Darling, W George ^j   Weiss, Dominik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^g HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^h GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

ⁱ UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^j BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; DEPOSITS; DROUGHT; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC CARBON; PERMAFROST; WETLANDS;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; HYDROGEN CONCENTRATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU;

PEAT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HOLOCENE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PEAT; PEATLAND; PERMAFROST;

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

EID: 70450273253     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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