Timing for high lake levels of Qinghai Lake in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau since the Last Interglaciation based on quartz OSL dating

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 218-222

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

^a QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

High lake level; Luminescence dating; Palaeoenvironmental change; Qinghai Lake; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau (QTP)

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUARTZ; RADIOCARBON DATING;

CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI LAKE;

EID: 77649339917     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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