Holocene moist period recorded by the chronostratigraphy of a lake sedimentary sequence from Lake Tangra Yumco on the south Tibetan Plateau

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages 136-142

  Long, Hao ^a,b,c   Lai, ZhongPing ^a   Frenzel, Peter ^d   Fuchs, Markus ^e   Haberzettl, Torsten ^d  

^a QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Holocene climate change; Lake sediments; OSL dating; Radiocarbon dating; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84863778775     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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