Sequences and ages of fluvial terraces along the northern Piedmont of the Tianshan Mountains

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-74

  Lu, Honghua ^a   Li, Youli ^a   Nan, Feng ^b   Si, Supei ^a   Liu, Yunming ^a   Qian, Mang ^a   Zhao, Hongzhuang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Higher Education Press   (China)

Author keywords

Alluvial fan; ESR; Fluvial terrace; Loess paleosol series; The Tianshan Mountains

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; ANTICLINE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOSOL; PIEDMONT; RIVER CHANNEL; TERRACE;

ASIA; EURASIA; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 44649159490     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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