Spatial and glacial-interglacial variations in provenance of the Chinese Loess Plateau

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Xiao, Guoqiao ^a   Zong, Keqing ^a   Li, Gaojun ^b   Hu, Zhaochu ^a   Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^c,d,e   Peng, Shuzhen ^f   Zhang, Kexin ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e Peking University   (China)

^f Taishan College   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; ZIRCON;

CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL; NEO GENES; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES; ZIRCON AGE;

ZIRCON DEPOSITS;

EID: 84868326124     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053304     Document Type: Article

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