Long-term vegetation change and controlling factors in Donghae area, Korea, over the past 40,000years

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 309, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 291-297

  Lim, Jaesoo ^a   Lee, Jin Young ^a   Nahm, Wook Hyun ^a   Yi, Sangheon ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

Author keywords

13C of organic matter; C4 plant; Cave sediment; East Sea (Sea of Japan); Holocene; Last glacial maximum

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC MATERIAL; C4 PLANT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CAVE DEPOSIT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OPAL; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

DONGHAE; KANGWON; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; SOUTH KOREA;

POACEAE;

EID: 80051704522     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.06.013     Document Type: Article

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