Discussion of the relationship between dustfall grain size and the desert border, taking the southern border of the Tengger Desert and the southern dust deposit area as an example

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 386, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-7

  Guan, Qingyu ^a   Zhang, Jundi ^a   Wang, Lijuan ^a   Pan, Baotian ^a   Gui, Hongjie ^a   Zhang, Chen ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contour; Grain size class standard deviation; Southern desert border; The Tengger Desert

Indexed keywords

DUST; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRAIN SIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

CHINA; TENGGER DESERT;

EID: 84881555212     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.01.017     Document Type: Article

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