Little Ice Age glacier fluctuations reconstructed for the southeastern Tibetan Plateau using tree rings

Quaternary International

Volumn 283, Issue , 2013, Pages 134-138

  Zhu, Haifeng ^a   Xu, Peng ^b   Shao, Xuemei ^b   Luo, Haijiang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c National Environment Monitoring Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84870878935     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.04.011     Document Type: Article

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