Holocene hydrological and climatic change on the northern Mongolian Plateau based on multi-proxy records from Lake Gun Nuur

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 323-325, Issue , 2012, Pages 75-86

  Zhang, Chengjun ^a   Zhang, Wanyi ^a   Feng, Zhaodong ^b   Mischke, Steffen ^c,d   Gao, Xiang ^e   Gao, Dou ^a   Sun, Feifei ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Holocene; Mineralogy; Mongolia; Multi proxy record; Paleohydrology; Sediment geochemistry

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE; WESTERLY;

CHINA; MONGOLIAN PLATEAU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84862799769     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.01.032     Document Type: Article

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