Pliocene-Pleistocene climate change at the NE Tibetan Plateau deduced from lithofacies variation in the drill core SG-1, western Qaidam Basin, China

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 933-952

  Wang, Jiuyi ^a   Fang, Xiaomin ^a,b   Appel, Erwin ^c   Song, Chunhui ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE MINERALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COARSENING; DRILLS; INFILL DRILLING; LAKES; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SHRINKAGE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEXTURES;

AVERAGE RECOVERY RATE; BRACKISH LAKES; CLIMATIC CHANGES; GLOBAL ICE VOLUME; NE TIBETAN PLATEAUX; SEDIMENTARY TEXTURES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WESTERN QAIDAM BASIN;

CORE DRILLING;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORE ANALYSIS; EVAPORITE; HALITE; LITHOFACIES; MUDSTONE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SILTSTONE; UPLIFT;

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

EID: 84872048440     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2012.76     Document Type: Article

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