Origin of the magnetic susceptibility signal in Chinese loess

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 833-839

  Meng, Xingmin ^a,b   Derbyshire, Edward ^a,b   Kemp, Rob A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Gansu Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PROXY; LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL;

CHINA;

EID: 0031440670     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(97)00053-X     Document Type: Article

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