Alluvial terrace systems in Zhangjiajie of northwest Hunan, China: Implications for climatic change, tectonic uplift and geomorphic evolution

Quaternary International

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-39

  Yang, Guifang ^a   Zhang, Xujiao ^a   Tian, Mingzhong ^a   Brierley, Gary ^b   Chen, Anze ^c   Ping, Yamin ^a   Ge, Zhiliang ^a   Ni, Zhiyun ^a   Yang, Zhen ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY; TERRACE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CHINA; HUNAN; ZHANGJIAJIE;

EID: 79851510449     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.05.019     Document Type: Article

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