Asynchronous glaciations in arid continental climate

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 182, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-19

  Batbaatar, Jigjidsurengiin ^a   Gillespie, Alan R ^a   Fink, David ^b   Matmon, Ari ^c   Fujioka, Toshiyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Asynchronous glaciation; Central Asia; Holocene; Pleistocene; Sublimation

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ARID REGIONS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

'DRY' [; ASYNCHRONOI GLACIATION; CENTRAL ASIA; CONTINENTAL CLIMATE; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MELT FRACTION; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; PLEISTOCENE; SUB-HUMID;

SUBLIMATION;

ABLATION; ARID REGION; GLACIATION; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MELTING; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUBLIMATION;

CENTRAL ASIA; MONGOLIA;

EID: 85038835516     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.12.001     Document Type: Review

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