Aeolian sediment evidence that global cooling has driven late Cenozoic stepwise aridification in central Asia

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 342, Issue , 2010, Pages 29-44

  Lu, H ^a   Wang, X ^a   Li, L ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; CENOZOIC; COOLING; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LABORATORY METHOD; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SILT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UPLIFT;

CENTRAL ASIA; CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77955999909     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP342.4     Document Type: Article

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