Eolian environmental changes in the Northern Mongolian Plateau during the past ∼ 35,000 yr

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 245, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 505-517

  Feng, Z D ^a,b   Zhai, X W ^a   Ma, Y Z ^a   Huang, C Q ^a   Wang, W G ^c   Zhang, H C ^d   Khosbayar, P ^e   Narantsetseg, T ^e   Liu, K B ^f   Rutter, N W ^g  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c State Oceanic Administration   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^f LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gobi dynamics; Last glacial; Loess; Mongolian Plateau; Paleoclimate changes

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERT; ENTISOL; EOLIAN PROCESS; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GOBI DESERT; MONGOLIA; MONGOLIAN PLATEAU;

EID: 33847016874     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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