Late Glacial and Holocene development of Lake Donggi Cona, north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, inferred from sedimentological analysis

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 337-338, Issue , 2012, Pages 159-176

  Opitz, Stephan ^a   Wünnemann, Bernd ^b,c   Aichner, Bernhard ^g   Dietze, Elisabeth ^d   Hartmann, Kai ^d   Herzschuh, Ulrike ^a   IJmker, Janneke ^b   Lehmkuhl, Frank ^b   Li, Shijie ^h   Mischke, Steffen ^f   Plotzki, Anna ^e   Stauch, Georg ^b   Diekmann, Bernhard ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^g BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aragonite; China; Monsoon; Multi site study; Paleolimnology; Sedimentology; XRD; XRF

Indexed keywords

ARAGONITE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LATE GLACIAL; MONSOON; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SILT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84861455615     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.04.013     Document Type: Article

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