Monsoon source shifts during the drying mid-Holocene: Biomarker isotope based evidence from the core 'monsoon zone' (CMZ) of India

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 123, Issue , 2015, Pages 144-157

  Sarkar, Saswati ^a   Prasad, Sushma ^a   Wilkes, Heinz ^b   Riedel, Nils ^c   Stebich, Martina ^c   Basavaiah, Nathani ^d   Sachse, Dirk ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

Author keywords

Compound specific stable isotopic composition; Holocene; Indian Summer Monsoon; Lipid biomarkers; Lonar Lake

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUTROPHICATION; ISOTOPES; LAKES; PARAFFINS; VEGETATION;

HOLOCENES; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; LIPID BIOMARKERS; LONAR LAKES; STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ALCOHOL; ALKALINITY; ALKANE; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BIOMARKER; C4 PLANT; CARBON ISOTOPE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DOMINANCE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EUTROPHICATION; GRASS; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LIPID; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MONSOON; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SALINITY; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT CORE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER COLUMN; WOODY PLANT;

INDIA; LONAR LAKE; MAHARASHTRA;

CYANOBACTERIA; POACEAE;

EID: 84935123492     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.06.020     Document Type: Article

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