Establishing the timing of chemical deposition events on Belukha Glacier, Altai Mountains, Russia, using Pollen analysis

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 66-72

  Nakazawa, Fumio ^a,b   Miyake, Takayuki ^a   Fujita, Koji ^c   Takeuchi, Nozomu ^d   Uetake, Jun ^a,b   Fujiki, Toshiyuki ^e   Aizen, Vladimir ^f   Nakawo, Masayoshi ^g  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^g National Institute of Humanities   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; EMISSION; ION; MAGNESIUM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHENOLOGY; POLLEN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW; TAXONOMY;

ALTAY [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; BELUKHA GLACIER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 79952906640     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-43.1.66     Document Type: Article

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