Contrasting dust supply patterns across the north-western Chinese Loess Plateau during the last glacial-interglacial cycle

Quaternary International

Volumn 240, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 167-180

  Vriend, Mirjam ^a,d   Prins, Maarten A ^a   Buylaert, Jan Pieter ^b   Vandenberghe, Jef ^a   Lu, Huayu ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOACCUMULATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GRAIN SIZE; LOESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOSOL; SILT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79959765135     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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