Spatial and temporal changes of summer monsoon on the Loess Plateau of central China during the last 130 ka inferred from Rb/Sr ratios

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1022-1030

  Chen, Yang ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Liu, Lianwen ^a   Ji, Junfeng ^a   Zhang, Jianxin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Loess; Precipitation; Rb Sr ratios; Summer monsoon

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

SUMMER MONSOON;

CLIMATOLOGY;

LOESS; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUATERNARY; RUBIDIUM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRONTIUM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 0346256533     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/02yd0200     Document Type: Article

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