Little Ice Age on the Tibetan Plateau and its bordering mountains: Evidence from moraine chronologies

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 116, Issue , 2014, Pages 41-53

  Xu, Xiangke ^a   Yi, Chaolu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

LIA maximum extent; Little Ice Age; Moraine dating; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894380895     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.02.003     Document Type: Review

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