East Asian monsoon variability over the last seven glacial cycles recorded by a loess sequence from the northwestern Chinese Loess Plateau

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Sun, Youbin ^a,b,c   Chen, Jun ^b   Clemens, Steven C ^d   Liu, Qingsong ^e   Ji, Junfeng ^b   Tada, Ruiji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese Loess Plateau; East Asian monsoon; Loess paleosol sequence; Magnetic susceptibility; Mean grain size

Indexed keywords

EID: 50549095219     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GC001287     Document Type: Article

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