Loess deposition in Asia: Its initiation and development before and during the Quaternary

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Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 222-225

  Dodonov, Andrey E ^a   Zhou, Liping ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; DUST; LOESS; MIOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 48849113874     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2008/v31i2/006     Document Type: Review

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