Prehistoric vegetation on the Loess Plateau: Steppe or forest?

Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 3-5, 1996, Pages 341-346

  Liu, Tungsheng ^a   Guo, Zhengtang ^a   Wu, Naiqin ^a   Lu, Houyuan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE VEGETATION; NATURAL VEGETATION; STEPPE; VEGETATION;

CHINA, LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 0030417980     PISSN: 07439547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0743-9547(96)00041-4     Document Type: Article

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