An ostracod-inferred large Middle Pleistocene freshwater lake in the presently hyper-arid Qaidam Basin (NW China)

Quaternary International

Volumn 218, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 74-85

  Mischke, Steffen ^a,e   Sun, Zhencheng ^b   Herzschuh, Ulrike ^c   Qiao, Zizhen ^d   Sun, Naida ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOACCUMULATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LUMINESCENCE DATING; OSTRACOD; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

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

OSTRACODA;

EID: 77952541672     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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