Stepwise expansion of desert environment across northern China in the past 3.5 Ma and implications for monsoon evolution

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 237, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 45-55

  Ding, Z L ^a   Derbyshire, E ^b   Yang, S L ^a   Sun, J M ^a   Liu, T S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

East Asian summer monsoon; Loess red clay sequence; Mu Us desert; Plio Pleistocene; Sand content of loess

Indexed keywords

MONSOON EVOLUTION; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE MONSOON EVOLUTION; POLAR ICE; SAND-SIZED PARTICLES; SUMMER MONSOON;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPOSITION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ICE; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SAND;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

DESERTIFICATION; PALEOCLIMATE;

EID: 24144475022     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.036     Document Type: Article

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