High lake levels on Alxa Plateau during the Late Quaternary

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 1799-1808

  Wang, Nai Ang ^a   Li, Zhuo Lun ^a   Cheng, Hong Yi ^a   Li, Yu ^a   Huang, YinZhou ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alxa Plateau; desert; high lake levels; late Quaternary; MIS 3; MIS 5

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957935281     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4498-8     Document Type: Article

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