Chinese loess and the paleomonsoon

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue , 1998, Pages 111-145

  Liu, Tungsheng ^a   Ding, Zhongli ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOESS; PALAEOMONSOON; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE;

CHINA;

EID: 0003633554     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.26.1.111     Document Type: Article

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