Dry early Holocene revealed by sand dune accumulation chronology in Bayanbulak Basin (Xinjiang, NW China)

Holocene

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 614-626

  Long, Hao ^a,b   Shen, Ji ^a   Tsukamoto, Sumiko ^b   Chen, Jianhui ^c   Yang, Linhai ^d   Frechen, Manfred ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; Holocene moisture variation; luminescence dating; sand dune; semiarid arid Central Asia; Westerlies

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATING METHOD; DUNE; HOLOCENE; MOISTURE CONTENT; STALAGMITE;

CHINA;

EID: 84898679563     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683614523804     Document Type: Article

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