Preliminary study of mollusk fossils in the Qinan Miocene loess-soil sequence in western Chinese Loess Plateau

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 724-730

  Li, Fengjiang ^a   Wu, Naiqin ^a   Rousseau, Denis Didier ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Loess Plateau; Miocene loess; Mollusk evolution; Mollusk fossils; Sedimentary environment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HISTORY; SOILS;

MOLLUSK EVOLUTION; MOLLUSK FOSSILS; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; LOESS; MIOCENE; MOLLUSC; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

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

EID: 33750603959     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-006-0724-7     Document Type: Article

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