Instability characteristics of the East Asian Monsoon recorded by high-resolution loess sections from the last interglacial (MIS5)

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1067-1075

  Guan, QingYu ^a   Pan, BaoTian ^a   Gao, HongShan ^a   Li, BingYuan ^b   Wang, JunPing ^a   Su, Huai ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian monsoon; Last interglacial; Liupan Mountain; Paleosol; Shagou loess section; Wangguan loess section

Indexed keywords

INTERGLACIAL; LOESS SECTION; MONSOON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTS;

WIND;

CLIMATE VARIATION; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LOESS; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LIUPAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 34447316390     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-007-0040-x     Document Type: Article

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