Rates of dust deposition between 50 ka and 20 ka revealed by OSL dating at Yuanbao on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 248, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 431-439

  Lai, ZhongPing ^a   Wintle, Ann G ^b   Thomas, David S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary of MIS 2 and 3; Chinese loess; Dust deposition; OSL dating

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; DEPOSITION VELOCITY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DUST; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LOESS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MARINE RECORD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUARTZ; QUATERNARY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; LINXIA BASIN; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 34247643203     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.12.013     Document Type: Article

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