Re-arrangement of atmospheric circulation at about 2.6 Ma over northern China: Evidence from grain size records of loess-palaeosol and red clay sequences

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 547-558

  Ding, Z L ^a,b   Rutter, N W ^c   Sun, J M ^a   Yang, S L ^a   Liu, T S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b State Key Lab Loess Quaternary G   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EOLIAN PROCESS; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL;

CHINA;

EID: 0034068280     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(99)00017-7     Document Type: Article

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