A high-resolution stalagmite record of the Holocene East Asian monsoon from Mt Shennongjia, central China

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 257-264

  Dong, Jinguo ^a   Wang, Yongjin ^a   Cheng, Hai ^a,b   Hardt, Ben ^b   Lawrence Edwards, R ^b   Kong, Xinggong ^a   Wu, Jiangying ^a   Chen, Shitao ^a   Liu, Dianbing ^a   Jiang, Xiuyang ^a   Zhao, Kan ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

18O; China; East Asian summer monsoon; Holocene Optimum; Sanbao Cave; Stalagmite

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; INSOLATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; STALAGMITE; THORIUM ISOTOPE;

CHINA; HUBEI; SANBAO CAVE; SHENNONGJIA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77649260590     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609350393     Document Type: Article

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