Abstract
Environmental change recorded by lake sediments is one of the important branches of the past global changes study. The new progress of lake sediments and environmental changes in China since the late 1980s has been comprehensively discussed. The highlights emphasized are Asian paleomonsoon migration reflected by lake level fluctuation, uplift of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau recorded by lacustrine sediments, saltlake sediments and environmental evolution, lake response to the natural-human interaction and modern lake biogeochemical process. Meanwhile important suggestions for the lake sediments and environmental research in the future are proposed, which include studies on the quantitative relationship between lake environment proxies and climate factors, high-resolution evolutionary sequence and spatial differentiation of environments, modern lake dynamic process and environment, Quaternary Chinese lake database and global changes.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1744-1754 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Chinese Science Bulletin |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 19 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 1999 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgement This work was supported by the Yational Natural Srirnce Foundation of China (Grant Yo. 49572331) and the Chinese Arademy of Sciences ( Grant Yo. KT95 1-A1 -402-04-06) .
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Keywords
- Environmental change
- Lake sediments