Wind erosion on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau: Constraints from OSL and U-Th dating of playa salt crust in the Qaidam Basin

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 779-789

  Han, Wenxia ^a,b   Ma, Zhibang ^c   Lai, Zhongping ^a,d   Appel, Erwin ^e   Fang, Xiaomin ^c   Yu, Lupeng ^d,f  

^a QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f Qinghai Geological Survey Institute   (China)

Author keywords

OSL dating; Playa salt crust; Qaidam Basin; U Th dating; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

DUST; ISOTOPES; LUMINESCENCE; TECTONICS; UNLOADING;

OSL DATING; QAIDAM BASIN; SALT CRUST; U-TH DATING; WIND EROSIONS;

EROSION;

LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLAYA; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; URANIUM SERIES DATING; WIND EROSION;

CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84898799901     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3483     Document Type: Article

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