Reinterpreting climate proxy records from late Quaternary Chinese loess: A detailed OSL investigation

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 111-136

  Stevens, Thomas ^a   Thomas, David S G ^a   Armitage, Simon J ^a   Lunn, Hannah R ^a   Lu, Huayu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese loess; diagenesis; East Asian Monsoon; luminescence dating; Quaternary; sedimentation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; DIAGENESIS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPLACEMENT; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MIOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENTATION;

ASIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 33845321000     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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