East Asian summer monsoon intensity inferred from iron oxide mineralogy in the Xiashu Loess in southern China

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 345-353

  Zhang, Weiguo ^a   Yu, Lizhong ^a   Lu, Min ^b   Zheng, Xiangmin ^b   Ji, Junfeng ^c   Zhou, Limin ^b   Wang, Xiaoyong ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; IRON ORES; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OXIDE MINERALS; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; WIND;

CARBON ISOTOPES; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAUX; COOLING TRENDS; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPIES; EAST ASIAN MONSOONS; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLES; GLOBAL OCEANS; MAGNETIC DATUM; ORBITAL VARIATIONS; SATURATION ISOTHERMAL REMANENT MAGNETIZATIONS; SOIL CONDITIONS; STRONG LINKS; SUMMER MONSOONS; TOTAL IRONS;

IRON OXIDES;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GOETHITE; HEMATITE; IRON OXIDE; LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MINERALOGY; MONSOON; PALEOSOL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; WEATHERING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 59049083213     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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