Magnetic susceptibility as a proxy for rainfall: Worldwide data from tropical and temperate climate

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 19-20, 2011, Pages 2732-2744

  Balsam, William L ^a   Ellwood, Brooks B ^b   Ji, Junfeng ^c   Williams, Earle R ^d   Long, Xiaoyong ^c   El Hassani, Ahmed ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Institut Scientifique   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Climatology; Magnetic susceptibility; Pedogenesis; Rainfall proxy; Reflectance spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SOILS; DATA SETS; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; PEDOGENESIS; PREDICTION QUALITY; REFLECTANCE SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMI-ARID CONDITIONS; SOIL ENVIRONMENT; SPECTRAL DATA; TEMPERATE CLIMATE; WEATHERING PROCESS; WORLD-WIDE BASIS; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; XRD;

CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; REFLECTION; SOILS; TROPICS; WEATHERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

RAIN;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; KAOLINITE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PEDOGENESIS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL REGION; WAVELENGTH; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

MALI; MOROCCO;

EID: 80051868273     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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