Ultra-high rates of loess sedimentation at Zhengzhou since Stage 7: Implication for the Yellow River erosion of the Sanmen Gorge

Geomorphology

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 131-142

  Zheng, Hongbo ^a   Huang, Xiangtong ^a   Ji, Junliang ^a   Liu, Rui ^a   Zeng, Qingyou ^a   Jiang, Fuchu ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Mangshan loess; Sanmen Gorge; Yellow River

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; EROSION; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; LOESS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOSOL; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HENAN; YELLOW RIVER; ZHENGZHOU;

EID: 33847417977     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.03.014     Document Type: Article

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