An erosional hiatus in Chinese loess sequences revealed by closely spaced optical dating

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 2253-2259

  Lu, Huayu ^a,b   Stevens, Thomas ^c   Yi, Shuangwen ^a   Sun, Xuefeng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese Loess Plateau; Erosional hiatus; OSL dating; Palaeoclimatic change; The late Quaternary

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748706982     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-2097-x     Document Type: Article

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