Oxygen and carbon isotope patterns archived in shells of the aquatic gastropod Radix: Hydrologic and climatic signals across the Tibetan Plateau in sub-monthly resolution

Quaternary International

Volumn 290-291, Issue , 2013, Pages 282-298

  Taft, Linda ^a   Wiechert, Uwe ^a   Zhang, Hucai ^b   Lei, Guoliang ^c   Mischke, Steffen ^a,d   Plessen, Birgit ^e   Weynell, Marc ^a   Winkler, Andreas ^a   Riedel, Frank ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE SIGNAL; EVAPORATION; GASTROPOD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ICE COVER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SHELL;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

GASTROPODA; RADIX (GASTROPOD);

EID: 84875514232     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.031     Document Type: Article

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