Late Quaternary downcutting rates of the Qianyou River from U/Th speleothem dates, Qinling mountains, China

Quaternary Research

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 194-200

  Wang, Fei ^a   Li, Hongchun ^b   Zhu, Rixiang ^a   Qin, Feizhou ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NINGXIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Qianyou River; Qinling mountains, China; Speleothem

Indexed keywords

CAVE SYSTEM; DATING METHOD; DOWNCUTTING; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; QUATERNARY; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINLING MOUNTAINS;

EID: 4644287674     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2004.06.007     Document Type: Article

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