Pliocene-Pleistocene stepwise drying of Central Asia: Evidence from paleomagnetism and sporopollen record of the deep borehole SG-3 in the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 94-95, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-81

  Cai, Maotang ^a   Fang, Xiaomin ^a   Wu, Fuli ^a   Miao, Yunfa ^b   Appel, Erwin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aridification; Global cooling; Qaidam Basin; Sporopollen; Tibet Plateau uplift

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; GLOBAL COOLING; QAIDAM BASIN; SPOROPOLLEN; TIBET PLATEAU;

GEOMAGNETISM; LANDFORMS; VEGETATION;

DRYING;

ARIDIFICATION; BOREHOLE; COOLING; DESERT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALYNOLOGY; PLAYA; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; STEPPE; UPLIFT;

CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

AMARANTHACEAE; ARTEMISIA; EPHEDRACEAE;

EID: 84864348942     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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