Panxian Dadong, South China: Establishing a record of Middle Pleistocene climatic changes

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 302-313

  Wang, Wei ^a   Liu, Jun ^b   Hou, Yamei ^c   Si, Xinqiang ^b   Huang, Weiwen ^c   Schepartz, Lynne A ^d   Miller Antonio, Sari ^e  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b Cultural Relic Management Bureau   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian paleoenvironment; China; Middle Pleistocene; Panxian Dadong; Speleothem; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CAVE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PLEISTOCENE; SPELEOTHEM; STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; PANXIAN DADONG; WORLD;

EID: 11844250513     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2004.0030     Document Type: Article

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