Enhancement mechanisms of magnetic susceptibility in the Chinese red-clay sequence

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Nie, Junsheng ^a,b,c   King, John W ^a   Fang, Xiaomin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIZATION; PARAMAGNETIC MATERIALS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUPERPARAMAGNETISM;

LOESS-PALEOSOL SEQUENCE; PEDOGENESIS; RED-CLAY SEQUENCE;

GEOMAGNETISM;

CLAY; LOESS; MAGNETIC METHOD; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOSOL;

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

EID: 37249041558     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031430     Document Type: Article

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