Late Pleistocene glacial advances in the western Tibet interior

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 381, Issue , 2013, Pages 210-221

  Amidon, William H ^a   Bookhagen, Bodo ^b   Avouac, Jean Philippe ^c   Smith, Taylor ^b   Rood, Dylan ^d  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

10Be; 21Ne; Climate; Cosmogenic; Glacier; Tibet

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CLIMATIC REGIMES; COSMOGENIC; GLACIAL ADVANCES; GLACIAL CHRONOLOGY; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; TIBET; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIERS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GLACIER; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; KARAKORAM; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84884564623     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.041     Document Type: Article

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