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Mid- to late-Holocene paleoenvironmental changes and glacier fluctuations reconstructed from the sediments of proglacial lake Buruo Co, northern Tibetan Plateau

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Published in 2019 at "Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology"

DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.12.023

Abstract: Abstract Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau are an important freshwater resource for large populations in south and southeast Asia. Therefore, it is important to understand past variations in glacier activity in the region to assess… read more here.

Keywords: lake buruo; plateau; tibetan plateau; proglacial lake ... See more keywords
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Accumulation of pollutants in proglacial lake sediments: Impacts of glacial meltwater and anthropogenic activities.

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Published in 2020 at "Environmental science & technology"

DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c01849

Abstract: With global warming, melting of glaciers can result in release of pollutants into the environment. For remote Alpine lakes, both atmosphere-deposited anthropogenic pollutants and glacier-released pollutants can eventually sink in the sediment. To date, there… read more here.

Keywords: proglacial lake; accumulation pollutants; meltwater; glacial meltwater ... See more keywords