Optical dating of Chinese loess using sand-sized quartz: Establishing a time frame for Late Pleistocene climate changes in the western part of the Chinese Loess Plateau

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 99-113

  Buylaert, J P ^a,b   Murray, A S ^b   Vandenberghe, D ^a   Vriend, M ^c   De Corte, F ^d   Van den haute, P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

63 90 m quartz; Hiatus; High resolution; Optical dating; Western Chinese loess

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATING METHOD; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ; QUATERNARY; STRATIGRAPHY;

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

EID: 36749087549     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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