Lipid distributions in loess-paleosol sequences from northwest China

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1071-1079

  Xie, Shucheng ^a   Chen, Fahu ^b   Wang, Zhiyuan ^a   Wang, Hongmei ^a   Gu, Yansheng ^a   Huang, Yongsong ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; STRATIGRAPHY;

PALEOSOLS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

INTERGLACIAL; LIPID; LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOSOL; STRATIGRAPHY;

(NORTHWEST); CHINA;

EID: 0041520837     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(03)00083-4     Document Type: Article

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