Preliminary ESR dating results on loess samples from the loess-paleosol sequence at Luochuan, Central Loess Plateau, China

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 2, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 381-385

  Gongming, Yin ^a   Min, Lin ^a,b   Yanchun, Lu ^a   Jianping, Li ^a   Fei, Han ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC ENERGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dating; ESR; Loess samples

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BLEACHING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LIGHT EFFECT; LOESS; PALEOSOL; QUARTZ; SOLAR RADIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 34548043953     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2006.03.011     Document Type: Article

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