Terminations and their correlation with solar insolation in the Northern Hemisphere: A record from a loess section in Northwest China

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 216, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 267-277

  Wu, Guangjian ^a,b   Pan, Baotian ^c   Guan, Qingyu ^c   Xia, Dunsheng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Grain size; Insolation; Loess; Termination

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; INSOLATION; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; WORLD;

EID: 11844293487     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.11.004     Document Type: Article

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