New absolute time scale for the Quaternary climate in the Chinese loess region by grain-size analysis

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-38

  Vandenberghe, Jef ^a   Zhisheng, An ^b   Nugteren, Govert ^a   Huayu, Lu ^b   Van Huissteden, Ko ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SEDIMENTS;

CHINESE LOESS; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN SIZE ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; QUATERNARY CLIMATE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; TIME-SCALES;

SEDIMENTATION;

CHRONOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION RATE; CLIMATE; QUATERNARY CLIMATE; TIME SCALE;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 0030684092     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0035:NATSFT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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