Climatic significance of n-alkanes and their compound-specific δD values from lake surface sediments on the Southwestern Tibetan Plateau

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 3022-3033

  Hu, Xing ^a,b   Zhu, Liping ^a   Wang, Yong ^a   Wang, Junbo ^a   Peng, Ping ^a   Ma, Qingfeng ^a,b   Hu, Jianfang ^c   Lin, Xiao ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Hydrogen isotope ratio; Lake sediment; n Alkane; Precipitation; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903897186     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-014-0227-4     Document Type: Article

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