The impacts of Tibetan uplift on palaeoclimate proxies

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 342, Issue , 2010, Pages 279-291

  Lunt, Daniel J ^a,b   Flecker, Rachel ^a   Clift, Peter D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; MONSOON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UPLIFT;

BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER; CHINA; GANGES RIVER; GUANGDONG; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SOUTH CHINA SEA; YANGTZE RIVER; ZHUJIANG;

EID: 77955998007     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP342.16     Document Type: Article

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