Spatiotemporal variations of Zr/Rb ratio in three last interglacial paleosol profiles across the Chinese Loess Plateau and its implications for climatic interpretation

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1413-1422

  Wang, HaiBin ^a,b   Liu, LianYou ^b   Feng, ZhaoDong ^a,c  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Provenance; Rb; Transportation sorting; Weathering; Zr

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049109479     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0068-0     Document Type: Article

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