Long-term glacier melt fluctuations over the past 2500 yr in monsoonal High Asia revealed by radiocarbon-dated lacustrine pollen concentrates

Geology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 359-362

  Zhang, Ji Feng ^a   Xu, Baiqing ^a,b   Turner, Falko ^a,c   Zhou, Liping ^d   Gao, Pan ^d   Lü, Xinmiao ^a,b   Nesje, Atle ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKES;

ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING; COMPLEX PROCESSES; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; LONG TERM RECORDS; PROGLACIAL LAKES; RADIOCARBON AGE; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIATION; GLACIER; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MELTING; MONSOON; POLLEN; RADIOCARBON DATING;

EID: 85015246333     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G38690.1     Document Type: Article

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