Can relative paleointensities be determined from the normalized magnetization of the wind-blown loess of China?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 106, Issue B9, 2001, Pages 19221-19232

  Pan, Yongxin ^a,b   Zhu, Rixiang ^a   Shaw, John ^b   Liu, Qingsong ^c   Guo, Bin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MAGNETIZATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; QUATERNARY;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 0034777513     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jb000360     Document Type: Article

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