Environmental Evolution of the Lop Nur Region in Tarim Basin since Early Pleistocene.
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- Yan Shun
- The Xinjiang Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- Mu Guijin
- The Xinjiang Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- Xiu Yingqing
- The Xinjiang Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- Zhao Zhenghong
- The 2nd Group of Hydrogeology, Xinjiang Bereau of Geology and Mineralogy
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- Endo Kunihiko
- Department of Geosystem Sciences, Nihon University
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- Other Title
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- 中国ロプヌール地域の第四紀環境変遷
- Environmental Evolution of the Lop Nur
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Abstract
The K1 boring core was taken from the bottom of the dried up lake of Lop Nur, situated at the east margin of the Tarim Basin. This core, about 100m long, composed of mainly mud and sand with gypsum beds since the early Pleistocene, reveals an unconformity between the early Pleistocene and mid-Pleistocene. Pollen analyses made it clear that in the early Pleistocene, the forest-steppe vegetation was dominant in the region, but turned into alternation of desert steppe and desert since the mid-Pleistocene. The lake was developed probably as early as in the early Pleistocene. High percentages of Picea and total tree pollen suggest a comparatively wet condition and existence of forests near Lop Nur in the early Pleistocene. Arid environment started at the beginning of the mid-Pleistocene and it became extremely arid in the Holocene.
Journal
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- The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-Kenkyu)
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The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-Kenkyu) 36 (4), 235-248, 1997
Japan Association for Quaternary Research
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- CRID
- 1390282681473030016
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- NII Article ID
- 10002509369
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- NII Book ID
- AN0034136X
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- ISSN
- 18818129
- 04182642
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- NDL BIB ID
- 4332862
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- Text Lang
- en
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- JaLC
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