Differences between East Asian and Indian monsoon climate records during MIS3 attributed to differences in their driving mechanisms: Evidence from the loess record in the Sichuan basin, southwestern China and other continental and marine climate records

Quaternary International

Volumn 218, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 94-103

  Han, Wenxia ^a,b,c   Fang, Xiaomin ^b   Yang, Shengli ^b   King, John ^d  

^a QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRAIN SIZE; HEAT TRANSFER; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

CHENGDU BASIN; CHINA; SICHUAN; SICHUAN BASIN;

EID: 77952545539     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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