OSL chronology for lacustrine sediments recording high stands of Gahai Lake in Qaidam Basin, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 223-227

  Fan, QiShun ^a,b   Lai, ZhongPing ^a   Long, Hao ^a,b   Sun, YongJuan ^a   Liu, XiangJun ^a,b  

^a QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

High lake levels; Luminescence dating; Palaeoenvironmental change; Qaidam Basin; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING;

CHINA; GAHAI LAKE; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77649337834     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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