Late Holocene vegetation and climate oscillations in the Qaidam Basin of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Quaternary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-69

  Zhao, Yan ^a   Yu, Zicheng ^a,b   Liu, Xiuju ^c   Zhao, Cheng ^b   Chen, Fahu ^a   Zhang, Ke ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemisia Chenopodiaceae pollen ratio; Climate change; Fossil pollen; Late Holocene; Qaidam Basin; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MOISTURE FLUX; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HURLEG LAKE; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; ARTEMISIA; CYPERACEAE; EPHEDRA; NITRARIA; POACEAE;

EID: 70849107059     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.11.007     Document Type: Article

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