Grain sizes of susceptibility and anhysteretic remanent magnetization carriers in Chinese loess/paleosol sequences

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Liu, Qingsong ^a   Banerjee, Subir K ^a   Jackson, Michael J ^a   Maher, Barbara A ^b   Pan, Yongxin ^c   Zhu, Rixiang ^c   Deng, Chenglong ^c   Chen, Fahu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese loess; Grain size of susceptibility and ARM carriers; Pedogenesis

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE; LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENTATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 2542463322     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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