Stepwise landforms and Quaternary episodic uplifts of mountains around Xinding Basin

Dizhen Dizhi

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 187-201

  Zhang, Shi Min ^a   Ren, Jun Jie ^a   Luo, Ming Hui ^a   Ding, Rui ^a   Lü, Zhi Qiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Loess; Pediment; River terrace; Uplift; Xinding Basin

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EPISODIC EVENT; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; GRABEN; LANDFORM; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LOESS; MOUNTAIN; PALEOSOL; PEDIMENT; QUATERNARY; RIVER TERRACE; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANXI; WUTAI MOUNTAIN; XINDING BASIN;

EID: 51749109163     PISSN: 02534967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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