Last glacial pollen record from Lanzhou (Northwestern China) and possible forcing mechanisms for the MIS 3 climate change in Middle to East Asia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 769-781

  Jiang, Hanchao ^a   Mao, Xue ^a,b   Xu, Hongyan ^a   Thompson, Jessica ^c   Wang, Ping ^a   Ma, Xiaolin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

40 30 ka; China; Lanzhou; Last glacial; Loess; Pollen

Indexed keywords

40-30 KA; CHINA; LANZHOU; LAST GLACIAL; LOESS; POLLEN;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; LAKES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; FERN; FOSSIL RECORD; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL; LOESS; POLLEN; SHRUB; SPORE;

CHINA; GANSU; LANZHOU; LOESS PLATEAU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ABIES; ALGAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; CUPRESSACEAE; CYPERACEAE; FILICOPHYTA; PICEA; POACEAE; TSUGA;

EID: 79952037633     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.024     Document Type: Article

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