Spatial climatic variability on the Central Loess Plateau (China) as recorded by grain size for the last 250 kyr

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 185-206

  Nugteren, Govert ^a   Vandenberghe, Jef ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aeolian; Central Loess Plateau; Dust; Grain size; Loess; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

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

EID: 3242722418     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2004.01.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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