Grain size of loess, palaeosol and Red Clay deposits on the Chinese Loess Plateau: Significance for understanding pedogenic alteration and palaeomonsoon evolution

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 129-138

  Sun, Youbin ^a,b   Lu, Huayu ^a   An, Zhisheng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chinese Loess Plateau; Grain size; Loess palaeosol sequence; Palaeomonsoon evolution; Pedogenic alteration; Red Clay sequence

Indexed keywords

CLAY; GRAIN SIZE; LOESS; MIOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PLIOCENE; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

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

EID: 33644614689     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.018     Document Type: Article

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