Separation of pedogenic and lithogenic components of magnetic susceptibility in the Chinese loess/palaeosol sequence as determined by the CBD procedure and a mixing analysis

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 551-562

  Vidic, Nataša J ^a,b   TenPas, Jeff D ^b   Verosub, Kenneth L ^b   Singer, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Loess; Magnetic susceptibility; Palaeoclimate; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSOL; QUATERNARY;

CHINA;

EID: 0033943438     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2000.00178.x     Document Type: Article

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