Climatically driven glacial-interglacial variations in C3 and C4 plant proportions on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 337-340

  Vidic, Natasa J ^a   Montanez, Isabel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C4 and C3 plants; Carbon isotopes of organic matter; Chinese Loess Plateau; Glacial interglacial cycles; Paleosols

Indexed keywords

LOESS DEPOSITS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON (TOC);

CARBON; DEPOSITION; GLACIERS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CARBON ISOTOPE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LOESS; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY;

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

EID: 2042456735     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20222.2     Document Type: Article

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