Environmental magnetism and paleoclimatic interpretation of the Sanmenxia loess-paleosol sequence in the southeastern extremity of the Chinese Loess Plateau

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 2755-2762

  Wang, Xisheng ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^a,b   Løvlie, Reidar ^c   Sun, Zhiming ^a   Pei, Junling ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Loess paleosol couplets; Magnetic susceptibility; Median grain size; Paleoclimate; Sanmenxia

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751279397     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-2192-z     Document Type: Article

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