Climate extremes in Loess of China coupled with the strength of deep-water formation in the North Atlantic

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 113-128

  Guo, Zhengtang ^a   Liu, Tungsheng ^a   Fedoroff, Nicolas ^b   Wei, Lanying ^a   Ding, Zhongli ^a   Wu, Naiqin ^a   Lu, Huoyuan ^a   Jiang, Wenying ^a   An, Zhisheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Loess; Monsoons; North Atlantic Deep Water; Paleoclimate; Paleosol

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER FORMATION; EXTREME EVENT; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHINA;

EID: 0032171523     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(98)00010-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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