Holocene moisture variations across China and driving mechanisms: Asynthesis of climatic records

Quaternary International

Volumn 313-314, Issue , 2013, Pages 179-193

  Ran, Min ^a   Feng, Zhaodong ^b  

^a XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSGRESSION;

ARABIAN SEA; CHINA; EUROPE; INDIAN OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84886716623     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.09.034     Document Type: Article

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