Proxy of monsoon seasonality in carbon isotopes from paleosols of the southern Chinese Loess Plateau

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 987-990

  Wang, Hong ^a   Follmer, Leon R ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CARBON; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTS;

ANNUAL AVERAGE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; GLACIAL CYCLES; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PLANT RESPIRATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS;

SOILS;

CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; LOESS; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; QUATERNARY; SEASONALITY;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84879880365     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0987:POMSIC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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