Miocene to Pleistocene floras and climate of the Eastern Himalayan Siwaliks, and new palaeoelevation estimates for the Namling-Oiyug Basin, Tibet

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 113, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Khan, Mahasin Ali ^a   Spicer, Robert A ^b,c   Bera, Subir ^a   Ghosh, Ruby ^d   Yang, Jian ^c   Spicer, Teresa E V ^c   Guo, Shuang xing ^e   Su, Tao ^f   Jacques, Frédéric ^f   Grote, Paul J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^d BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^e NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^f KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^g SURANAREE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Climate change; India; Monsoon; Neogene; Palaeoelevation; Tibet

Indexed keywords

INDIA; MONSOON; NEO GENES; PALAEOELEVATION; TIBET;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENTHALPY; ESTIMATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; FLORISTICS; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLIOCENE; TAXONOMY;

CHINA; SIWALIK HILLS; THAILAND; XIZANG;

EID: 84890887514     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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