Stepwise advance of the Mu Us Desert since late Pliocene : Evidence from a red clay-loess record

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1211-1214

  Ding, Zhongli ^a   Sun, Jimin ^a   Liu, Dongsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Desert; Loess; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000090919     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02885968     Document Type: Article

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