A magnetostratigraphic record of landscape development in the eastern Ordos Plateau, China: Transition from Late Miocene and Early Pliocene stacked sedimentation to Late Pliocene and Quaternary uplift and incision by the Yellow River

Geomorphology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 225-238

  Pan, Baotian ^a   Hu, Zhenbo ^a,b   Wang, Junping ^c   Vandenberghe, Jef ^b   Hu, Xiaofei ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fluvial terrace; Fluviolacustrine system; Jinshaan gorge; Yellow River

Indexed keywords

FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; RIVER TERRACE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERTIARY; UPLIFT;

CHINA; ORDOS; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 78349307544     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.09.019     Document Type: Article

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