Timing and style of Late Pleistocene glaciation in the Queer Shan, northern Hengduan Mountains in the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 957-966

  Xu, Liubing ^a,b   Ou, Xianjiao ^a,b   Lai, Zhongping ^b   Zhou, Shangzhe ^a   Wang, Jie ^c   Fu, Yingchun ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eastern tibetan plateau; ESR dating; Glacial advance; Marine isotope stages 2 and 3; OSL dating; South Asian monsoon

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; GLACIATION; GLACIER ADVANCE; ICE FIELD; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLEISTOCENE;

CHINA; HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 78149391224     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1379     Document Type: Article

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