Early- and mid-Holocene palaeoenvironments as revealed by mineral magnetic, geochemical and palynological data of sediments from Bai Nuur and Ulan Nuur, southeastern inner Mongolia Plateau, China

Quaternary International

Volumn 250, Issue , 2012, Pages 100-118

  Wang, Hongya ^a,b   Liu, Hongyan ^a   Zhao, Fengjun ^a   Yin, Yi ^a   Zhu, Jiangling ^a   Snowball, Ian ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; HOLOCENE; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEMIARID REGION;

MONGOLIAN PLATEAU;

EID: 84856234427     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.06.014     Document Type: Article

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