The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age from a sediment record of Lake Ebinur, northwest China

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Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 518-524

  Long, Ma ^a   Jinglu, Wu ^b   Hong, Yu ^c   Haiao, Zeng ^b   Abuduwaili, Jilili ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVAPORATION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CORE; WATER COLUMN;

CHINA; EBINUR LAKE; SIBERIA; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 79959540443     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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