Locating the boundary between the Pleistocene and the Holocene in Chinese loess using luminescence

Holocene

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 893-899

  Lai, Zhong Ping ^a,c   Wintle, Ann G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chinese loess; Luminescence chronology; Magnetic susceptibility; Optically stimulated luminescence; Pleistocene Holocene boundary; Quartz OSL; Sedimentation rate

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

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

EID: 33750165480     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683606hol980rr     Document Type: Article

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