Desert loess versus glacial loess: Quartz silt formation, source areas and sediment pathways in the formation of loess deposits

Geomorphology

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 231-256

  Wright, Janet S ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chines loess; Dessert loess; Glacial loess; Hungarian loess; Nigerian loess; Sediment pathways; Tunisian loess

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DESERT; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; LOESS; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

CHINA; HUNGARY; NIGERIA; TUNISIA;

EID: 0035119343     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(00)00060-X     Document Type: Article

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