Magnetostratigraphy and paleoclimatic interpretation of a continuous 7.2Ma Late Cenozoic eolian sediments from the Chinese Loess Plateau

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-88

  Sun, Donghuai ^a   Shaw, John ^b   An, Zhisheng ^a   Cheng, Minyang ^a   Yue, Leping ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DUST; MAGNETOSPHERE; SAMPLING; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CENOZOIC SEDIMENTS; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; EOLIAN DUST ACCUMULATION; GLOBAL ICE VOLUME; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATIC INTERPRETATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

ASIAN MONSOON; LOESS/PALEOSOL SEQUENCE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALAEOCLIMATE;

CHINA, LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 0031803803     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03353     Document Type: Article

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