Late Quaternary glaciation in the Tianshan and implications for palaeoclimatic change: A review

Boreas

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 215-232

  Xu, Xiangke ^a   Kleidon, Axel ^b   Miller, Lee ^b   Wang, Shiqin ^c   Wang, Liqiang ^a   Dong, Guocheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIATION; GLACIER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; NEOGLACIAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUATERNARY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77953884403     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00118.x     Document Type: Article

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