Sedimentary responses to the Pleistocene climatic variations recorded in the South China Sea

Quaternary Research

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 162-172

  Boulay, Sébastien ^a   Colin, Christophe ^a   Trentesaux, Alain ^b   Clain, Stéphane ^c   Liu, Zhifei ^d   Lauer Leredde, Christine ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^d TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

East Asian monsoon; End members modelling; Grain size; Mid Pleistocene Transition; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; MONSOON; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REWORKING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 34250644431     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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