A late Eocene palynological record of climate change and Tibetan Plateau uplift (Xining Basin, China)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 344-345, Issue , 2012, Pages 16-38

  Hoorn, Carina ^a   Straathof, Julia ^b   Abels, Hemmo A ^b   Xu, Yadong ^c   Utescher, Torsten ^d   Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^b,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^f BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate; Eocene; Palynology; Saline lakes; Tibet; Uplift

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA SET; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; STEPPE; SUCCESSION; TAXONOMY; UPLIFT;

CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XINING;

EPHEDRIPITES; PINACEAE;

EID: 84862763465     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.05.011     Document Type: Article

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