Weathering histories of Chinese loess deposits based on uranium and thorium series nuclides and cosmogenic 10Be

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 61, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 5221-5231

  Gu, Z Y ^a,b   Lal, D ^a   Liu, T S ^b   Guo, Z T ^b   Southon, J ^c   Caffee, M W ^c  

^a GEOSCIENCES RESEARCH DIVISION   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; LOESS; THORIUM SERIES; URANIUM SERIES; WEATHERING;

CHINA;

EID: 0031462630     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00313-X     Document Type: Article

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