~4Ma coarsening of sediments from Baikal, Chinese Loess Plateau and South China Sea and implications for the onset of NH glaciation

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 298, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 201-209

  Jiang, Hanchao ^a   Mao, Xue ^a,b   Xu, Hongyan ^a   Thompson, Jessica ^c   Ma, Xiaolin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

4.0Ma; Coarsening of sediments; ITCZ; Northern Hemisphere; Polar ice volume

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GLACIATION; GRAIN SIZE; HEAT TRANSFER; ICE SHEET; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TECTONIC ROTATION;

BAIKAL REGION; CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 78649778920     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.09.025     Document Type: Article

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