Determining the climatic boundary between the Chinese loess and palaeosol: Evidence from aeolian coarse-grained magnetite

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-274

  Liu, Qingsong ^a   Banerjee, Subir K ^a   Jackson, Michael J ^a   Chen, Fahu ^b   Pan, Yongxin ^c   Zhu, Rixiang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Lanzhou   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aeolian; Chinese loess; Low temperature properties; Pedogenesis

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; LOESS; MAGNETITE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL;

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

EID: 1142280956     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2003.02148.x     Document Type: Article

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