The record of changing hematite and goethite accumulation over the past 22 Myr on the Chinese Loess Plateau from magnetic measurements and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Hao, Qingzhen ^a,b   Oldfield, Frank ^b   Bloemendal, Jan ^b   Torrent, José ^c   Guo, Zhengtang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GOETHITE; GRAIN SIZE; HEMATITE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PEDOGENESIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77954237845     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006604     Document Type: Article

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