Quartz and K-feldspar optical dating chronology of eolian sand and lacustrine sequence from the southern Ulan Buh Desert, NW China: Implications for reconstructing late Pleistocene environmental evolution

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 393, Issue , 2014, Pages 111-121

  Li, Guoqiang ^a   Jin, Ming ^a   Wen, Lijuan ^a   Zhao, Hui ^b   Madsen, David ^a   Liu, Xiaokang ^a   Wu, Duo ^a   Chen, Fahu ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Arid landscape evolution; China; Optical stimulated luminescence dating; Pleistocene; Ulan Buh Desert

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERT; DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OPTICAL METHOD; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ; SAND; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL; ULAN BUH DESERT;

EID: 84889636647     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.11.003     Document Type: Article

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