Holocene millennial-scale climate variations documented by multiple lake-level proxies in sediment cores from Hurleg Lake, Northwest China

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 995-1008

  Zhao, Cheng ^a,b   Yu, Zicheng ^a   Zhao, Yan ^c   Ito, Emi ^d   Kodama, Kenneth P ^a   Chen, Fahu ^c  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; Holocene; Millennial scale moisture variations; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; OSTRACOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RESOLUTION; SEDIMENT CORE; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

CHINA; HURLEG LAKE; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

OSTRACODA;

EID: 78049261845     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-010-9469-6     Document Type: Article

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