Climatic variations over the last 4000calyr BP in the western margin of the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, reconstructed from pollen data

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 321-322, Issue , 2012, Pages 16-23

  Zhao, Keliang ^a,b   Li, Xiaoqiang ^a,b   Dodson, John ^c   Atahan, Pia ^c   Zhou, Xinying ^a,b   Bertuch, Fiona ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climatic variations; Late holocene; Mid latitude westerlies; Pollen; Western tarim basin

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; HUMIDITY; MELTWATER; MOISTURE CONTENT; OPEN SPACE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

CHINA; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

AMARANTHACEAE; CANNABACEAE; EPHEDRA;

EID: 84862783655     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.01.012     Document Type: Article

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