A ~30,000-year record of environmental changes inferred from Lake Chen Co, Southern Tibet

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 343-358

  Zhu, Liping ^a   Zhen, Xiaolin ^a,b   Wang, Junbo ^a   Lü, Houyuan ^a   Xie, Manping ^a,b   Kitagawa, Hiroyki ^c   Possnert, Göran ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

30,000 years; Environmental changes; Lake sediments; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CORE ANALYSIS; ICE CORE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; RADIOCARBON DATING;

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

EID: 71349088048     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-008-9280-9     Document Type: Article

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