Terrestrial mollusc records from Xifeng and Luochuan L9 loess strata and their implications for paleoclimatic evolution in the Chinese Loess Plateau during marine Oxygen Isotope Stages 24-22

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 349-359

  Wu, B ^a,b   Wu, N Q ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LOESS; MOLLUSC; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY;

CHINA; GANSU; LOESS PLATEAU; LUOCHUAN; SHAANXI; XIFENG;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 79955061538     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-349-2011     Document Type: Article

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