Linking Tarim Basin sea retreat (west China) and Asian aridification in the late Eocene

Basin Research

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 621-640

  Bosboom, R ^a   Dupont Nivet, G ^a,b,c   Grothe, A ^a   Brinkhuis, H ^a,d   Villa, G ^e   Mandic, O ^f   Stoica, M ^g   Huang, W ^a,b   Yang, W ^b,c   Guo, Z ^b   Krijgsman, W ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^f NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; BASIN EVOLUTION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EOCENE; LUTETIAN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

CHINA; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84908478254     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bre.12054     Document Type: Article

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