High-resolution record of geomagnetic excursions in the Matuyama chron constrains the ages of the Feiliang and Lanpo Paleolithic sites in the Nihewan Basin, North China

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Ao, Hong ^a   An, Zhisheng ^a   Dekkers, Mark J ^b   Wei, Qi ^c   Pei, Shuwen ^c   Zhao, Hui ^a   Zhao, Hongli ^a   Xiao, Guoqiao ^d   Qiang, Xiaoke ^a   Wu, Dacheng ^e   Chang, Hong ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^e TARIM OILFIELD COMPANY   (China)

Author keywords

Early Pleistocene; East Asia; human evolution; magnetostratigraphy; Nihewan Basin

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOPHYSICS;

EAST ASIA; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NIHEWAN BASIN; PLEISTOCENE;

GEOMAGNETISM;

BRUNHES CHRON; GEOMAGNETISM; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MATUYAMA CHRON; PALEOLITHIC; PALEOMAGNETISM;

CHINA; HEBEI; NIHEWAN BASIN;

EID: 84865791278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004095     Document Type: Article

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