Early to mid-Holocene lake high-stand sediments at Lake Donggi Cona, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 325-336

  Dietze, Elisabeth ^a   Wünnemann, Bernd ^a,b   Hartmann, Kai ^a   Diekmann, Bernhard ^c   Jin, Huijun ^e   Stauch, Georg ^d   Yang, Sizhong ^e   Lehmkuhl, Frank ^d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; End member modeling (EMMA); Grain size distributions; Lake high stand sediment; Lake level fluctuations; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; END-MEMBER MODELING (EMMA); GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; LAKE LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

LAKES;

DEPOSITION; FACIES; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; MONSOON; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TERRACE;

CHINA; DONGGI CONA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84877140188     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.12.008     Document Type: Article

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