Geochronology of the Baye Mn oxide deposit, southern Yunnan Plateau: Implications for the late Miocene to Pleistocene paleoclimatic conditions and topographic evolution

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 139, Issue , 2014, Pages 227-247

  Deng, Xiao Dong ^a   Li, Jian Wei ^a   Vasconcelos, Paulo M ^b   Cohen, Benjamin E ^b   Kusky, Timothy M ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MANGANESE; MIOCENE; ORE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 84901485487     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2014.04.036     Document Type: Article

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