Latest Olduvai short-lived reversal episodes recorded in Chinese loess

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Yang, Tianshui ^a   Hyodo, Masayuki ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^b   Ding, Lin ^c   Li, Huidi ^d   Fu, Jianli ^d   Wang, Shubing ^d   Wang, Hongwei ^c   Mishima, Toshiaki ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; GEODYNAMO; LOESS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OLDUVAI EVENT; PALEOMAGNETISM;

ASIA; BAOJI; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; SHAANXI;

EID: 55349131020     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005264     Document Type: Article

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