Changes of the Hailuogou glacier, Mt. Gongga, China, against the background of climate change during the Holocene

Quaternary International

Volumn 218, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 166-175

  Li, Zongxing ^a   He, Yuanqing ^a,d   Yang, Xiaomei ^c   Theakstone, Wilfred H ^e   Jia, Wenxiong ^a,c   Pu, Tao ^d   Liu, Qiao ^b   He, Xianzhong ^a   Song, Bo ^a   Zhang, Ningning ^a   Wang, Shijing ^a   Du, Jiankuo ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^c NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; HOLOCENE; ICE THICKNESS; LITTLE ICE AGE; MASS BALANCE; MELTWATER; PALEOCLIMATE; RUNOFF;

CHINA; GONGGA MOUNTAIN; HAILUOGOU GLACIER; SICHUAN;

EID: 77952548721     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2008.09.005     Document Type: Article

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