Quartz OSL chronology and dust accumulation rate changes since the Last Glacial at Weinan on the southeastern Chinese Loess Plateau

Boreas

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 815-829

  Kang, Shugang ^a   Wang, Xulong ^a   Lu, Yanchou ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; AGE DETERMINATION; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GEOACCUMULATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAST GLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; QUARTZ; TIME SERIES;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; SHAANXI; WEINAN;

EID: 84884717393     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12005     Document Type: Article

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