Provenance of loess material and formation of loess deposits on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 203, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 845-859

  Sun, Jimin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Gobi desert; Loess; Loess Plateau; Mineralogy; Provenance; Sand deserts

Indexed keywords

DESERT; LOESS; MINERALOGY; PLIOCENE; PROVENANCE; SAND;

CHINA;

EID: 0037110561     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00921-4     Document Type: Article

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