The disappearance of glaciers in the Tien Shan Mountains in Central Asia at the end of Pleistocene

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 103, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-33

  Takeuchi, Nozomu ^a   Fujita, Koji ^b   Aizen, Vladimir B ^c   Narama, Chiyuki ^d   Yokoyama, Yusuke ^e   Okamoto, Sachiko ^b   Naoki, Kazuhiro ^f   Kubota, Jumpei ^g  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

B lling Aller d; Deglaciation; Glaciers; Holocene; Ice core

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; SNOW;

DEGLACIATIONS; HOLOCENES; ICE CORE; ICE CORE RECORDS; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ICE;

GLACIER; ICE CORE; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PLEISTOCENE;

TIEN SHAN;

EID: 84907808919     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.006     Document Type: Article

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