Plant-wax hydrogen isotopic evidence for postglacial variations in delivery of precipitation in the monsoon domain of China

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 875-878

  Seki, Osamu ^a   Meyers, Philip A ^b   Yamamoto, Shinya ^a   Kawamura, Kimitaka ^a   Nakatsuka, Takeshi ^c   Zhou, Weijian ^d   Zheng, Yanhong ^e  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^e NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; CLIMATE CONDITION; EARTH'S CLIMATE; FUTURE CLIMATE; HOLOCENES; INDIAN MONSOON; ISOTOPE RECORD; ISOTOPIC RECORD; KEY COMPONENT; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; MONSOON RAINFALL; MONSOONAL PRECIPITATION; N-ALKANES; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC; PALEOCLIMATE PROXY; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; SOUTHWEST CHINA; STABLE HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; WORLD POPULATION;

EARTH (PLANET); HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; LAKES; PARAFFINS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANT; POSTGLACIAL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION;

CHINA;

EID: 80053966749     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32117.1     Document Type: Article

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