Last glacial-Holocene geochronology of sediment cores from a high-altitude Tibetan lake based on AMS 14C dating of plant fossils: Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions

Chemical Geology

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 21-29

  Watanabe, Takahiro ^a   Matsunaka, Tetsuya ^b   Nakamura, Toshio ^c   Nishimura, Mitsugu ^b   Izutsu, Yasuhiro ^b   Minami, Motoyasu ^d   Nara, Fumiko Watanabe ^a   Kakegawa, Takeshi ^a   Wang, Junbo ^e   Zhu, Liping ^e  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

13C; Lake Pumoyum Co; Old carbon effect; Radiocarbon dating; Reservoir effect; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANTS; C ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HIGH ALTITUDE; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL; MACROPHYTES; OLD CARBON EFFECT; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOCARBON DATING; RESERVOIR EFFECT; SEDIMENT CORE; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TERRESTRIAL PLANTS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ELECTROMIGRATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANT; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77956577258     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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