Wet climate during the 'Little Ice Age' in the arid Tarim Basin, Northwestern China

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 409-416

  Liu, Weiguo ^a,b   Liu, Zhonghui ^c   An, Zhisheng ^a   Wang, Xulong ^a   Chang, Hong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

aridity; LIA; plant carbon isotopes; Tarim Basin

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; ARIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LITTLE ICE AGE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; TRAJECTORY; WARMING; WESTERLY;

CHINA; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 79954623003     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610378881     Document Type: Article

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