Preliminary magnetostratigraphy of a thick eolian red clay-loess sequence at Lingtai, the Chinese Loess Plateau

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1225-1228

  Ding, Z L ^a   Sun, J M ^a   Yang, S L ^a   Liu, T S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENT; REMANENCE; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; POLARITY ZONATION; ACCUMULATION RATES; ATMOSPHERIC DUST; BULK SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; MAGNETIC REMANENCE; SUMMER MONSOON; WIND-BLOWN DUST;

STRATIGRAPHY; SEDIMENTS;

LOESS/PALEOSOL SEQUENCE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALAEOCLIMATE; RED CLAY;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 0032522174     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00836     Document Type: Article

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