Carbonate leaching processes in the Red Clay Formation, Chinese Loess Plateau: Fingerprinting East Asian summer monsoon variability during the late Miocene and Pliocene

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 194-198

  He, Tong ^a   Chen, Yang ^a   Balsam, William ^b   Qiang, Xiaoke ^c   Liu, Lianwen ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Ji, Junfeng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE CONTENT; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; COOLING TRANSITIONS; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; EAST ASIAN WINTER MONSOON; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LEACHING PROCESS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CARBONATE MINERALS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEDIMENTS; WIND;

LEACHING;

CARBONATE; DEEP SEA; EL NINO; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; LEACHING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MIOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOSOL; PLIOCENE; RED SOIL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL HORIZON; SUMMER;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84874826627     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053786     Document Type: Article

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