Climate instability during the penultimate glaciation: Evidence from two high-resolution loess records, China

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B9, 1999, Pages 20123-20132

  Ding, Z L ^a   Ren, J Z ^a   Yang, S L ^a   Liu, T S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIATION; LOESS; QUATERNARY;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 0033543309     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900183     Document Type: Article

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