Climate variability recorded by n-alkanes of paleolake sediment in Qaidam Basin on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in late MIS3

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 863-870

  Pu, Yang ^a,b   Zhang, Hu Cai ^a   Lei, Guo Liang ^a   Chang, Feng Qin ^a   Yang, Ming Sheng ^c   Zhang, Wen Xiang ^a   Lei, Yan Bin ^a,b   Yang, Lun Qing ^a,b   Pang, You Zhi ^a,b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Molecular fossil; N alkane; Paleoclimate; Paleoenvironment; Paleolake sediment; Solar insolation

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR FOSSILS; N-ALKANES; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATES; SOLAR INSOLATION;

BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKES; METHANATION; METHANE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOLAR RADIATION;

PARAFFINS;

ALKANE; FOSSIL RECORD; INSOLATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE EVOLUTION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY;

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

EID: 77953361956     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-010-0075-2     Document Type: Article

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