High resolution hematite/goethite records from Chinese loess sequences for the last glacial-interglacial cycle: Rapid climatic response of the East Asian Monsoon to the tropical Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Ji, Junfeng ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Balsam, William ^b   Lu, Huayu ^c   Sun, Youbin ^a   Xu, Huifang ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese loess; Hematite and goethite; Humid and dry

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

GLACIATION; GOETHITE; HEMATITE;

GEOPHYSICS;

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GOETHITE; HEMATITE; LOESS; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ASIA; EURASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 18144435637     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018975     Document Type: Article

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