Astronomical timescale and palaeoclimatic implication of stacked 3.6-Myr monsoon records from the Chinese Loess Plateau

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 33-48

  Sun, Youbin ^a,d   Clemens, Steven C ^b   An, Zhisheng ^a   Yu, Zhiwei ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; REGIONAL PLANNING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EAST ASIAN MONSOON (EAM); MONSOON EVOLUTION; PALEOCLIMATIC IMPLICATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CENOZOIC; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE;

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

EID: 30044442420     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.07.005     Document Type: Article

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