A new OSL chronology for dust accumulation in the last 130,000 yr for the Chinese Loess Plateau

Quaternary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 152-160

  Lu, Y C ^a,b   Wang, X L ^a   Wintle, A G ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese loess; Fine grained quartz; OSL; Sensitivity corrected MAR protocol

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DUST; GRAIN SIZE; LAST GLACIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LOESS; PALEOSOL; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

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

EID: 33846276967     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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