Mega-pulses and megacycles in East Asian monsoon variations recorded in chinese loess-red clay magnetic susceptibility

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Xiong, Shangfa ^a   Jiang, Wenying ^a   Liu, Tungsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; TECTONICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; LAKES; MAGNETISM; WIND;

LOESS; MONSOON;

WIND EFFECTS; SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MONSOON; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCLIMATE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LAKE BAIKAL; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

CHINESE LOESS; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; CONTINENTAL SCALE; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; LAKE BAIKAL; SECOND ORDERS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME-SCALES;

EID: 38549179416     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027842     Document Type: Article

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