Subaerial and subaqueous deposition of loess: Experimental assessment of detrital remanent magnetization in Chinese loess

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 298, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 394-404

  Wang, Ronghua ^a   Løvlie, Reidar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chinese loess; Magnetization processes; Re deposition

Indexed keywords

CHINESE LOESS; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FIRST-ORDER; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOCK-IN DEPTHS; MAGNETIZATION PROCESSES; MARINE RECORD; PALEOCLIMATES; REDEPOSITION; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; TIME LAG;

GEOMAGNETISM;

MAGNETIZATION;

GEOMAGNETISM; LOESS; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETIZATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 77957298991     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.019     Document Type: Article

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