Tibet forcing Quaternary stepwise enhancement of westerly jet and central Asian aridification: Carbonate isotope records from deep drilling in the Qaidam salt playa, NE Tibet

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 116, Issue , 2014, Pages 68-75

  Han, Wenxia ^a,b   Fang, Xiaomin ^c   Ye, Chengcheng ^c   Teng, Xiaohua ^d   Zhang, Tao ^d  

^a QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aridification; Asian arid inland; Carbonate isotopes; Qaidam Basin; Quaternary; Westerlies

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; ASIAN ARID INLAND; QAIDAM BASIN; QUATERNARY; WESTERLIES;

CARBONATION; ISOTOPES;

JET DRILLING;

ARIDIFICATION; CARBONATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEEP DRILLING; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; UPLIFT;

CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; XIZANG;

EID: 84896828517     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.02.006     Document Type: Article

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