The age of the Taklimakan Desert

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5780, 2006, Pages 1621-

  Sun, Jimin ^a   Liu, Tungsheng ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; DESERT;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DESERT; LATITUDE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PARTICLE SIZE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; WIND;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 33745132108     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1124616     Document Type: Article

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7. We thank R. X. Zhu for helpful discussions and two anonymous reviewers for constructive reviews. Supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences grant KZCX2-SW-133 and the Natural Science Foundation of China grants 40021202, 40125009, and 40231011.