The extent of permafrost in China during the local Last Glacial Maximum (LLGM)

Boreas

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 688-698

  Zhao, Liang ^a   Jin, Huijun ^b   Li, Chuanchuan ^a   Cui, Zhijiu ^a   Chang, Xiaoli ^b   Marchenko, Sergey S ^b   Vandenberghe, Jef ^c   Zhang, Tingjun ^d   Luo, Dongliang ^b   Guo, Dongxin ^b   Liu, Gengnian ^a   Yi, Chaolu ^e  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERIGLACIAL PROCESS; PERMAFROST; PLEISTOCENE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84901921848     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12049     Document Type: Article

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