Last Glacial Maximum climate inferences from integrated reconstruction of glacier equilibrium-line altitude for the head of the Urumqi River, Tianshan Mountains

Quaternary International

Volumn 218, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 3-12

  Xu, Xiangke ^a,b   Wang, Liqiang ^a   Yang, Jianqiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ENERGY BALANCE; EQUILIBRIUM LINE; GLACIER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MASS BALANCE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; UPLIFT;

CHINA; TIEN SHAN; URUMQI RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 77952550944     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.11.027     Document Type: Article

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