Reappraisal of Chinese loess plateau stratigraphic sequences over the last 30,000 years: Precursors of an important Holocene monsoon climatic event

Radiocarbon

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 905-913

  Zhou, Weijian ^a   An, Zhisheng ^a   Jull, A J T ^b   Donahue, D J ^b   Head, M J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LOESS; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 0032462747     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200018877     Document Type: Article

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