Extended drought in the interior of Central Asia since the Pliocene reconstructed from sporopollen records

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 16-21

  Wu, Fuli ^a   Fang, Xiaomin ^a,b   Herrmann, Mark ^c   Mosbrugger, Volker ^c   Miao, Yunfa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aridification; Plio Pleistocene; Qaidam Basin; Sporopollen record

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; CENTRAL ASIA; CHENOPODIACEAE; EPHEDRA; GLOBAL COOLING; HERBACEOUS PLANTS; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; QAIDAM BASIN; SPOROPOLLEN RECORD; STEPPE VEGETATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VEGETATION CHANGE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; LANDFORMS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

VEGETATION;

ARIDIFICATION; COOLING; DROUGHT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HERB; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; POLLEN; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; STEPPE; UPLIFT; VEGETATION TYPE; ZONATION;

CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; ARTEMISIA; EPHEDRA; XEROPHYTA;

EID: 79952313852     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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