Late Holocene mobilisation of loess-like sediments in Hohuan Shan, high mountains of Taiwan

Quaternary International

Volumn 234, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 174-181

  Wenske, Dirk ^a   Böse, Margot ^a   Frechen, Manfred ^b   Lüthgens, Christopher ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GULLY; HOLOCENE; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MORPHODYNAMICS; OUTCROP; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SEDIMENT YIELD; SILTY SOIL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL COVER;

TAIWAN; TOUSHE BASIN;

EID: 79951949332     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.10.034     Document Type: Article

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