Lake level variations of Qinghai Lake in northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau since 3.7 ka based on OSL dating

Quaternary International

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 57-64

  Liu, XiangJun ^a,b   Lai, ZhongPing ^a   Madsen, David ^c   Yu, LuPeng ^a,b   Liu, Kai ^a,b   Zhang, JingRan ^a,b  

^a QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; LAKE LEVEL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI LAKE; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79953720842     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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