Advance-retreat history of the East-Asian summer monsoon rainfall belt over northern China during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 499-510

  Yang, Shiling ^a   Ding, Zhongli ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese loess; East Asian summer monsoon; glacial interglacial cycle; grain size; Mu Us desert; rainfall belt

Indexed keywords

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; CHINESE LOESS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONTOUR MAPS; DUST DEPOSITS; DUST SOURCES; DUST TRANSPORT; EAST-ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; GLACIAL PERIODS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN SIZES; INTERGLACIALS; LOESS PLATEAU; MIGRATION DISTANCE; MU US DESERT; NORTHERN CHINA; RAINFALL BELT; SUMMER MONSOONS; SUMMER-MONSOON RAINFALL;

DUST; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HISTORY; LANDFORMS; MAPS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SILT; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DESERT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GRAIN SIZE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; ORDOS;

EID: 52749095389     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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