Deposits and soils of the past 130,000 years at the desert-loess transition in northern China

Quaternary Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 148-156

  Sun, Jimin ^a   Ding, Zhongli ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

China; Loess; Mu us desert; Paleoclimate; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

CHINA; MU US DESERT;

EID: 0032462434     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1998.1989     Document Type: Article

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