Low-field susceptibility and palaeorainfall estimates. New data along a N-S transect of the Chinese Loess Plateau

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 817-821

  Florindo, F ^a   Zhu, R ^b   Guo, B ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOESS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL;

CHINA;

EID: 0033405193     PISSN: 14641895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-1895(99)00120-9     Document Type: Article

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