Late Neogene rock magnetic record of climatic variation from Chinese eolian sediments related to uplift of the Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 324-332

  Song, Yougui ^a,b   Fang, Xiaomin ^b,c   Torii, Masayuki ^d   Ishikawa, Naoto ^e   Li, Jijun ^b   An, Zhisheng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation reorganization; Chinese Loess Plateau; Magnetostratigraphy; Neogene; Red clay formation; Rock magnetism

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEOGENE; PALEOCLIMATE; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 33947728417     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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