Sediment transport processes across the Tibetan Plateau inferred from robust grain-size end members in lake sediments

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 91-106

  Dietze, E ^a   Maussion, F ^b   Ahlborn, M ^c   Diekmann, B ^d   Hartmann, K ^e   Henkel, K ^c   Kasper, T ^c   Lockot, G ^e   Opitz, S ^f   Haberzettl, T ^c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GRAIN SIZE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SALTATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRAP; SEDIMENTATION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84892604510     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-91-2014     Document Type: Article

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