Magnetostratigraphic dating of the Donggutuo and Maliang Paleolithic sites in the Nihewan Basin, North China

Quaternary Research

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Wang, Hongqiang ^a   Deng, Chenglong ^a   Zhu, Rixiang ^a   Wei, Qi ^b   Hou, Yamei ^b   Boëda, Eric ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Donggutuo; Magnetostratigraphy; Maliang; Nihewan Basin; North China; Paleolithic site; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HEBEI; NIHEWAN BASIN; WORLD;

EID: 21744436339     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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