New evidence on the age of the Taklimakan Desert

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-162

  Sun, Jimin ^a   Zhang, Zhenqing ^a   Zhang, Liyuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CONTROL; CENOZOIC ERA; CLIMATIC EFFECTS; DESERT CONDITIONS; DUNE SANDS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; IN-SITU; LATE CENOZOIC; LATE MIOCENE; NEOGENE DEPOSITS; NEW RESULTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RAIN SHADOW; SAND DESERTS; SHADOW EFFECTS; SILTSTONES; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; TARIM BASIN; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; RAIN; SPIN DYNAMICS;

LANDFORMS;

AGE DETERMINATION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERTIFICATION; DUNE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MIOCENE; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 69649097845     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25338A.1     Document Type: Article

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