Alluvial sequence in the north piedmont of the Chinese Tian Shan over the past 550 kyr and its relationship to climate change

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 285, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 343-353

  Lu, Honghua ^a,b   Burbank, Douglas W ^c   Li, Youli ^b  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alluvial fan; Climate change; Fluvial terrace; Loess paleosol sequence; Tian Shan

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL FAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LOESS; PALEOSOL; RIVER TERRACE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

TIEN SHAN;

EID: 72749108146     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.11.031     Document Type: Article

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