The influence of 14C reservoir age on interpretation of paleolimnological records from the Tibetan Plateau

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 67-79

  Hou, Juzhi ^a   D'Andrea, William J ^b   Liu, Zhonghui ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Climate change; Lake; Paleoclimate; Radiocarbon chronology; Reservoir age; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKES; REPAIR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOCLIMATES; RADIOCARBON CHRONOLOGY; SITE-SPECIFIC EVALUATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

AGE DETERMINATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIER; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYPSITHERMAL; ICE FIELD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; RESERVOIR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BANGONG LAKE; CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84863678758     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.06.008     Document Type: Article

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