Evaporative enrichment of stable isotopes (δ18o and δd) in lake water and the relation to lake-level change of lake qinghai, northeast tibetan plateau of China

Journal of Arid Land

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 623-635

  Wu, Huawu ^a   Li, Xiaoyan ^a   Li, Jing ^b,c   Jiang, Zhiyun ^a   Li, Guangyong ^a   Liu, Lei ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

d excess; E I ratio; Isotopic enrichment model; Lake level; Paleoclimate; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943245392     PISSN: 16746767     EISSN: 21947783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40333-015-0048-6     Document Type: Article

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