Lake Qinghai Paleoenvironment and Paleoclimate

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Author: Yu Junqing
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 7030229090
Published on: 2008-01
Hardcover

1.Introduction
(1)Aim and scope
(2)Previous investigations
(3)Paleoclimate study of China: a brief review

2.Geographic, Geological and Limnological Setting of Lake Qinghai
(1)Geological setting
(2)Geomorphological setting
(3)Geographic setting
(4)Limnological setting
(5)Peripheral lakes

3.Investigation Methods
(1)Introduction
(2)Field investigation
(3)Laboratory investigation
(4)Notes on investigation methods

4.Seismic Investigation, Lithologic Study of Sediment Cores and Radiometric Dating
(1)Introduction
(2)Sub-bottom profiles from the 3.5 kHZ seismic investigations
(3)Radiometric dating
(4)Lithologic units

5.Lake Levels and Climate Change During the Holocene
(1)Introduction
(2)Results and interpretations
(3)Holocene lake levels and climate reconstruction
(4)A correlation with proxy records from other studies
(5)Holocene climate variability of East Asia
(6)Summary and conclusions

6.Abrupt Changes in Climatic Conditions Across the Lateglacial/Holocene Transition on the Ne Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
(1)Introduction
(2)Results from a multi-proxy investigation on cores Q14B and Q16C
(3)Reconstruction of lake levels and limnological conditions
(4)Abrupt shifts in hydro-climatic conditions
(5)Correlation with other paleoenvironmental records in China
(6)Conclusions

7.Paleoenvironmental Signatures from Carbonate Minerals and Stable Isotopic Ratios from Lake Qinghai
(1)Introduction
(2)Modern carbonate environments
(3)Carbonate minerals in the sediment cores
(4)Lake Qinghai dolomite and inferred paleoenvironment
(5)Brine evolution deduced from the carbonate mineral record
(6)Stable isotopic ratios and their covariance
(7)Summary and conclusions

8.Paleoenvironment and Paleoclimate Conditions During the Marine Isotopic Stage 3 and the Last Glacial Maximum
(1)Introduction
(2)Results and interpretations
(3)Climatic conditions at the MIS 3 and the LGM
(4)Correlation with other proxy records in the region
(5)Summary and conclusions

9.References
10.Acknowledgments



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