A preliminarily quantitative estimation of the sedimentation and erosion rates of Loess deposits in Chinese Loess Plateau over the past 250 ka

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-52

  Li, Langping ^a   Lu, Huayu ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dust deposition; Erosion; Loess Plateau; Quantitative estimation; The quaternary

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DUST; EOLIAN PROCESS; EROSION RATE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; INTERGLACIAL; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PLATEAU; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 77953934229     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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