Chinese deserts and sand fields in Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene Optimum

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 2775-2783

  Lu, HuaYu ^a   Yi, ShuangWen ^a   Xu, ZhiWei ^a   Zhou, YaLi ^b   Zeng, Lin ^a   Zhu, FangYing ^a   Feng, Han ^a   Dong, LiNa ^a   Zhuo, HaiXin ^a   Yu, KaiFeng ^a   Mason, Joseph ^c   Wang, XiaoYong ^a   Chen, YingYong ^a   Lu, Qi ^d   Wu, Bo ^d   Dong, ZhiBao ^e   Qu, JianJun ^e   Wang, XunMing ^e   Guo, ZhengTang ^f  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^e Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

active sand dunes; deserts and sand fields in China; Holocene Optimum; Last Glacial Maximum; OSL dating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881609259     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5919-7     Document Type: Article

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