Loess record of the evolution history of severe sandstorms in the Tengger Desert during the Last Interglacial Period (MIS5)

Geosciences Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-162

  Guan, Qingyu ^a   Pan, Baotian ^a   Li, Na ^a   Li, Qiong ^a   Zhang, Jundi ^a   Xu, Shujian ^a   Gao, Hongshan ^a   Liu, Jia ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Grain size class standard deviation; Loess; Severe sandstorms; The Last Interglacial; The Tengger Desert

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954614149     PISSN: 12264806     EISSN: 15987477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12303-010-0015-3     Document Type: Article

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