Geochemical evidence for the provenance of middle Pleistocene loess deposits in southern China

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 23-24, 2010, Pages 3317-3326

  Hao, Qingzhen ^a   Guo, Zhengtang ^a   Qiao, Yansong ^b,c   Xu, Bing ^a   Oldfield, Frank ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c Key Laboratory of Neotectonic Movement and Geohazard   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; BULK SAMPLES; CLIMATE TRANSITION; DUST SOURCES; EAST ASIAN WINTER MONSOON; ELEMENT RATIOS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; FLOOD-PLAINS; GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE; GLACIAL PERIOD; LOESS PLATEAU; MAJOR ELEMENTS; NORTHERN CHINA; PLEISTOCENE; REGIONAL RESPONSE; SOURCE AREA; SOUTHERN CHINA; SUBTROPICAL CLIMATES; TIO; WINTER MONSOON; YANGTZE RIVER;

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; DUST; LANDFORMS; RIVERS;

DEPOSITS;

ARIDIFICATION; DUST; FLOODPLAIN; LOESS; PLEISTOCENE; PROVENANCE; SAMPLING; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 77957351171     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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