Magnetostratigraphic dating of river terraces: Rapid and intermittent incision by the Yellow River of the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau during the Quaternary

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B5, 1997, Pages 10121-10132

  Li, Ji Jun ^a   Fang, Xiao Min ^a,b   Van Der Voo, Rob ^b   Zhu, Jun Jie ^a   MacNiocaill, Conall ^b   Ono, Yugo ^c   Pan, Bao Tian ^a   Zhong, Wei ^a   Wang, Jian Li ^a   Sasaki, Taka ^c   Zhang, Yu Tian ^a   Cao, Ji Xiu ^a   Kang, Shi Chuang ^a   Wang, Jian Ming ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CLIMATE EFFECT; INCISION; LOESS/PALAEOSOL SEQUENCE; LOESS/PALEOSOL SEQUENCE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY CHRONOLOGY; RIVER TERRACE; UPLIFT;

CHINA, HUANG HO; CHINA, QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; CHINA, TIBETAN PLATEAU; CHINA, YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 0031404816     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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