Pleistocene environmental evolution in the Nihewan Basin and implication for early human colonization of North China

Quaternary International

Volumn 223-224, Issue , 2010, Pages 472-478

  Ao, Hong ^a,b,c   Deng, Chenglong ^a   Dekkers, Mark J ^d   Sun, Youbin ^b   Liu, Qingsong ^a   Zhu, Rixiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLONIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

CHINA; HEBEI; NIHEWAN BASIN;

EID: 77956059769     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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