Climate-driven environmental change in the Zhada basin, southwestern Tibetan Plateau

Geosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 74-92

  Saylor, Joel ^a   DeCelles, Peter ^a   Quade, Jay ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77953996127     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00507.1     Document Type: Article

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