Quantification of the contribution of pedogenic magnetic minerals to magnetic susceptibility of loess and paleosols on Chinese Loess Plateau: Paleoclimatic implications

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Xie, Qiaoqin ^a   Chen, Tianhu ^a   Xu, Huifang ^b   Chen, Jun ^c   Ji, Junfeng ^c   Lu, Huayu ^c   Wang, Xiaoyong ^c  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; IRON OXIDE; LOESS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

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

EID: 72049097904     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005968     Document Type: Article

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