Evaluating the role of climate and tectonics during non-steady incision of the Yellow River: evidence from a 1.24 Ma terrace record near Lanzhou, China

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 27-28, 2009, Pages 3281-3290

  Pan, Baotian ^a   Su, Huai ^a   Hu, Zhenbo ^a   Hu, Xiaofei ^a   Gao, Hongshan ^a   Li, Jijun ^a   Kirby, Eric ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CONTROL CYCLES; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; FLUVIAL INCISION; FLUVIAL TERRACES; INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; ROCK UPLIFT RATES; TERRACE FORMATIONS; TIME PERIODS; YELLOW RIVER;

CLIMATE CONTROL; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; TECTONICS;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

BEDROCK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOSOL; TECTONICS; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 70450239710     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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