A prolonged dry mid-Holocene climate revealed by pollen and diatom records from Lake Ugii Nuur in central Mongolia

Quaternary International

Volumn 229, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 74-83

  Wang, Wei ^a,b   Ma, Yuzhen ^c   Feng, Zhaodong ^b,d   Narantsetseg, Ts ^e   Liu, Kam Biu ^f   Zhai, Xinwei ^b  

^a INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^f LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; DROUGHT; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ARHANGAY; MONGOLIA; UGII LAKE;

AMARANTHACEAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYPERACEAE; POACEAE;

EID: 78650307930     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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