Holocene climatic change revealed by aeolian deposits from the Gonghe Basin, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Quaternary International

Volumn 296, Issue , 2013, Pages 231-240

  Liu, Bing ^a   Jin, Heling ^a   Sun, Liangying ^a   Sun, Zhong ^a   Su, Zhizhu ^b   Zhang, Caixia ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CHINA; GONGHE BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84877155468     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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