Magnetoclimatology and paleoprecipitation: Evidence from a north-south transect through the Chinese Loess Plateau

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Evans, M E ^a   Rokosh, C D ^a   Rutter, N W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS;

CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; CLIMOFUNCTION; GRAIN SIZE ANALYSIS; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MAGNETOCLIMATOLOGY; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOPRECIPITATION; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 0037092377     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013674     Document Type: Article

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