Late Quaternary linkage of sedimentary records to three astronomical rhythms and the Asian monsoon, inferred from a coastal borehole in the south Bohai Sea, China

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 329-330, Issue , 2012, Pages 101-117

  Yi, Liang ^a,b,c   Yu, Hong Jun ^a   Ortiz, Joseph D ^c   Xu, Xing Yong ^a   Chen, Shen Liang ^d   Ge, Jun Yi ^e   Hao, Qing Zhen ^e   Yao, Jing ^a   Shi, Xue Fa ^a   Peng, Shu Zhen ^f  

^a FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f TAISHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; Bohai Sea; Late Quaternary; Marine records; Nonlinear climatic response; Orbital forcing

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ASTRONOMY; BOREHOLE; GRAIN SIZE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LUMINESCENCE; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SUBSIDENCE; TILT; TIMESCALE;

BOHAI SEA; CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 84862820260     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.02.020     Document Type: Article

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