Late Holocene Asian monsoon variations recorded in Lake Rara sediment, western Nepal

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 125-128

  Nakamura, Atsunori ^a   Yokoyama, Yusuke ^a,b   Maemoku, Hideaki ^c   Yagi, Hiroshi ^d   Okamura, Makoto ^e   Matsuoka, Hiromi ^e   Miyake, Nao ^e   Osada, Toshiki ^f   Teramura, Hirofumi ^f   Adhikari, Danda Pani ^g   Dangol, Vishnu ^g   Miyairi, Yosuke ^a   Obrochta, Stephen ^a   Matsuzaki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^g TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Himalayas; Holocene; Lake Rara; Monsoon; Speleothem

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; MANGANESE DEPOSIT; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENT; SPELEOTHEM; STRATIFICATION; SUMMER; TITANIUM;

ARABIAN SEA; CHINA; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN OCEAN; KARNALI; NEPAL; RARA LAKE;

EID: 84856782491     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1568     Document Type: Article

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