Holocene wildfires related to climate and land-use change over the Weihe River Basin, China

Quaternary International

Volumn 234, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 167-173

  Tan, Zhihai ^a,b   Huang, Chun Chang ^a   Pang, Jiangli ^a   Zhou, Qunying ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS BURNING; BRONZE AGE; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; LAND USE CHANGE; LAST GLACIATION; LOESS; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; WILDFIRE;

CHINA; WEI RIVER;

EID: 79951942322     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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