Link between benthic oxygen isotopes and magnetic susceptibility in the red-clay sequence on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

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

^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

ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OXYGEN; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY;

LOESS-PALEOSOL SEQUENCE; RED-CLAY;

SOILS;

BENTHIC FLUX; LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSOL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RED SOIL; SUMMER; UPLIFT;

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

EID: 41849148639     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032817     Document Type: Article

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