Provenance of loess deposits in the Eastern Qinling Mountains (central China) and their implications for the paleoenvironment

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 43, Issue , 2012, Pages 94-102

  Zhang, Hongyan ^a   Lu, Huayu ^a   Jiang, Shao Yong ^a   Vandenberghe, Jef ^a,b   Wang, Shejiang ^c   Cosgrove, Richard ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese Loess Plateau; East Asian monsoon; Eastern Qinling Mountains; Loess provenance; Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; EASTERN QINLING MOUNTAINS; LOESS PROVENANCE; PALEOLITHIC;

ALUMINUM; ARID REGIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; DUST; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SODIUM;

DEPOSITS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BEDROCK; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HOMINID; MONSOON; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCCUPATION; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PROVENANCE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UPPER CRUST; WEATHERING;

CHINA; GOBI DESERT; LOESS PLATEAU; QINLING MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84860690824     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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