Seasonal climatic variation recorded by phytolith assemblages from the Baoji loess sequence in central China over the last 150 000 a

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 630-639

  Lü, Houyuan ^a   Wu, Naiqin ^a   Liu, Dongsheng ^a   Han, Jiamo ^a   Qin, Xiaoguang ^a   Sun, Xiangjun ^b   Wang, Yongji ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Loess; Paleomonsoon; Phytolith

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHINA;

EID: 0030317492     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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