Magnetostratigraphy of a Late Miocene-Pliocene loess-soil sequence in the western Loess Plateau in China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Hao, Qingzhen ^a   Guo, Zhengtang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOMAGNETISM;

FOSSILS; GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY TIMESCALE (GPTS); MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHIC METHOD; SOIL SEQUENCE;

SOIL TESTING;

LOESS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; PLIOCENE;

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

EID: 3543140129     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019392     Document Type: Article

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