Climatic instability recorded by the mollusk assemblages from the late glacial loess deposits in China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1238-1242

  Wu, Naiqin ^a   Rousseau, D D ^b   Liu, Dongsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Late glacial period; Loess deposits; Mollusk assemblages

Indexed keywords

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0001130163     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02885974     Document Type: Article

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