Initiation and variation of the dune fields in semi-arid China - with aspecial reference to the Hunshandake Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 369-380

  Yang, Xiaoping ^a   Wang, Xulong ^b   Liu, Ziting ^a   Li, Hongwei ^a   Ren, Xiaozun ^a   Zhang, Deguo ^a   Ma, Zhibang ^a   Rioual, Patrick ^a   Jin, Xindi ^a   Scuderi, Louis ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeolian system; China; Climate change; Desert; Holocene; Hunshandake; Middle latitude; Palaeosol; Pleistocene; Sand dune

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN SYSTEMS; CHINA; DESERT; HOLOCENES; HUNSHANDAKE; MIDDLE LATITUDE; PALAEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; SAND DUNES;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEDIMENTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STABILIZATION; SUN;

LANDFORMS;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DESERT; DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN PROCESS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEMIARID REGION; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHINA; HUNSHANDAKE DESERT; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84885190999     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.02.006     Document Type: Article

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