Initial intensification of East Asian winter monsson at about 2.75 Ma as seen in the Chinese eolian loess-red clay deposit

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 31-1

  Xiong, S F ^a   Ding, Z L ^a   Jiang, W Y ^a   Yang, S L ^a   Liu, T S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian winter monsoon; Grain size; Loess paleosol red clay; Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLAY; COOLING; DUST; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

EOLIAN LOESS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CENOZOIC; LOESS; MONSOON; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; RED SOIL; WINTER;

CHINA;

EID: 0043285347     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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