An abrupt shift in dust source on the Chinese Loess Plateau revealed through high sampling resolution OSL dating

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 121-132

  Stevens, Thomas ^a   Adamiec, Grzegorz ^b   Bird, Anna F ^a   Lu, Huayu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese Loess Plateau; Component resolution; Dust; Heavy minerals; Luminescence; OSL; Provenance; Quartz

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LUMINESCENCE; MINERALS; QUARTZ; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; HEAVY MINERALS; LUMINESCENCE ANALYSIS; LUMINESCENCE SIGNALS; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; OSL; PROVENANCE;

SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; DUST; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; LAST GLACIAL; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUARTZ; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84887340646     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.014     Document Type: Article

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