Dust supply from river floodplains: The case of the lower Huang He (Yellow River) recorded in a loess-palaeosol sequence from the Mangshan Plateau

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-84

  Prins, Maarten A ^a   Zheng, Hongbo ^b   Beets, Kay ^a   Troelstra, Simon ^a   Bacon, Patrick ^a   Kamerling, Ilse ^a   Wester, Wouter ^a   Konert, Martin ^a   Huang, Xiangtong ^b   Ke, Wang ^b   Vandenberghe, Jef ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aeolian dust; End member modelling; Huang He; Loess; Mangshan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOODPLAIN; GRAIN SIZE; LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HENAN; MANGSHAN PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER; ZHENGZHOU;

EID: 65349129554     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1167     Document Type: Article

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