Geochemical records in the South China Sea: Implications for East Asian summer monsoon evolution over the last 20 Ma

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 342, Issue , 2010, Pages 245-263

  Wan, Shiming ^a,b   Clift, Peter D ^c,d   Li, Anchun ^a   Li, Tiegang ^a   Yin, Xuebo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; GLACIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MIOCENE; MONSOON; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLATEAU; RECONSTRUCTION; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT; UPLIFT;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 77955997109     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP342.14     Document Type: Article

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