Stratigraphies and chronologies of late Quaternary loess-paleosol sequences in the core area of the central Asian arid zone

Quaternary International

Volumn 240, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 156-166

  Feng, Z D ^a,b   Ran, M ^a   Yang, Q L ^a   Zhai, X W ^a   Wang, W ^a   Zhang, X S ^a   Huang, C Q ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; CHRONOLOGY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; LOESS; PALEOSOL; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CENTRAL ASIA;

EID: 79959759024     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.019     Document Type: Article

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