Holocene lake level fluctuations and environmental changes at Taro Co, southwestern Tibet, based on ostracod-inferred water depth reconstruction

Holocene

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 29-43

  Guo, Yun ^a,b   Zhu, Liping ^a,c   Frenzel, Peter ^d   Ma, Qingfeng ^a   Ju, Jianting ^a   Peng, Ping ^a   Wang, Junbo ^a   Daut, Gerhard ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

environmental changes; Holocene; ostracod; Taro Co; Tibet; transfer function; water depth

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LAKE LEVEL; OSTRACOD; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WATER DEPTH; WESTERLY;

CHINA; INDIA; XIZANG;

COLOCASIA ESCULENTA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84951827536     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615596829     Document Type: Article

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