Luminescence chronology of aeolian deposits from the Qinghai Lake area in the Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its palaeoenvironmental implications

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-43

  Liu, XiangJun ^a,b   Lai, ZhongPing ^a,b   Yu, LuPeng ^a,d   Sun, YongJuan ^a,b   Madsen, David ^c  

^a QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Aeolian deposits; Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating; Palaeoenvironmental change; Qinghai Lake; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HIATUS; HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI LAKE; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84863784295     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.01.016     Document Type: Article

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