Provenance, transport and characteristics of modern aeolian dust in western Gansu Province, China, and interpretation of the Quaternary loess record

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 497-516

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Gansu Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Dust properties; Dust storms; Piedmont fans; Quaternary loess

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032128127     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jare.1997.0369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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