Northern Tibetan Plateau cooling and aridification linked to Cenozoic global cooling: Evidence from n-alkane distributions of Paleogene sedimentary sequences in the Xining Basin

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1569-1578

  Long, Li Qun ^a,b   Fang, Xiao Min ^a,c   Miao, Yun Fa ^a,d   Bai, Yan ^a   Wang, Yong Li ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

aridification; n alkanes; paleoenvironment; Tibetan uplift; Xining Basin

Indexed keywords

CONIFERALES; POACEAE;

EID: 79955769317     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4469-0     Document Type: Article

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