Bulk organic carbon isotopic record of lacustrine sediments in Dahu Swamp, eastern Nanling Mountains in South China: Implication for catchment environmental and climatic changes in the last 16,000 years

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 162-169

  Wei, Zhong ^a   Jibin, Xue ^a   Jixiu, Cao ^b   Yanming, Zheng ^a   Qiaohong, Ma ^a   Jun, Ouyang ^a   Ying, Cai ^a   Zhiguo, Zeng ^a   Wei, Liu ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bulk organic carbon isotope; Dahu Swamp; Environmental changes; South China; The East Asia monsoon; The Last Deglaciation

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRAIN SIZE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIATION; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MONSOON; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE; TRACE ELEMENT;

CHINA; NANLING;

EID: 77249097300     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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