Late Middle Pleistocene climate in southwestern China: inferences from the stratigraphic record of Panxian Dadong Cave, Guizhou

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 15-16, 2008, Pages 1555-1570

  Karkanas, Panagiotis ^a   Schepartz, Lynne A ^b   Miller Antonio, Sari ^c   Wang, Wei ^d   Huang, Weiwen ^e  

^a Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology Speleology of Southern Greece   (Greece)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Natural History Museum of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; CLIMATE CONTROL; DEBRIS; DEPOSITS; FORMING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; IRON; LANDFORMS; MANGANESE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COLD CLIMATES; DEBRIS FLOWS; DEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCING; EAST ASIA; ELSEVIER (CO); ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; FREEZE THAWING; FREEZING TEMPERATURES; GUIZHOU; INTERGLACIALS; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES; SHEET-FLOWS; VEGETATION COVER;

CAVES;

CAVE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DEBRIS FLOW; DEPOSITION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; PANXIAN DADONG CAVE;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 48149114499     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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