Three large shifts in East Asian monsoon circulation indicated by loess-paleosol sequences in China and late Cenozoic deposits in Japan

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 179-189

  Xiao, Jule ^a   An, Zhisheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian monsoon circulation; Lake Biwa; Loess paleosol sequence; Osaka Group; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL;

CHINA; JAPAN;

EID: 0032732651     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(99)00110-8     Document Type: Article

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