Climatic sub-cycles recorded by the fourth paleosol layer at Luochuan on the Loess Plateau

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1329-1335

  Tieniu, Wu ^a,b   Guangyong, Lu ^b  

^a SHAOYANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Luochuan; Paleoclimate; The fourth paleosol layer; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; CLIMATIC EVENTS; GLOBAL TRENDS; GRAIN SIZE; ICE CORE; LOESS PLATEAU; LUOCHUAN; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MEDIAN DIAMETERS; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOCLIMATIC RECORD; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SUB-CYCLE; THE FOURTH PALEOSOL LAYER;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

WIND;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRAIN SIZE; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; LUOCHUAN; SHAANXI;

EID: 84862243496     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1342-z     Document Type: Article

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