ESR, U-series and paleomagnetic dating of Gigantopithecus fauna from Chuifeng Cave, Guangxi, southern China

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 270-280

  Shao, Qingfeng ^a   Wang, Wei ^b   Deng, Chenglong ^c   Voinchet, Pierre ^d   Lin, Min ^e   Zazzo, Antoine ^d   Douville, Eric ^f   Dolo, Jean Michel ^g   Falguères, Christophe ^d   Bahain, Jean Jacques ^d  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guangxi Museum of Nationalities   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e CHINA INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC ENERGY   (China)

^f LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^g IBM   (France)

Author keywords

Chuifeng Cave; Early Pleistocene; ESR dating of fossil teeth; Gigantopithecus fauna; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

ENAMELS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; MAMMALS;

EARLY PLEISTOCENE; FOSSIL TEETH; GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY; GIGANTOPITHECUS FAUNA; MAGNETOZONES; PALEOMAGNETISM; SOUTHERN CHINA; UPPER LAYER;

CAVES;

CARBON ISOTOPE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; ENAMEL; FAUNA; FOSSIL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; MAMMAL; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY; TOOTH; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CHINA; CHUIFENG CAVE; GUANGXI ZHUANGZU;

GIGANTOPITHECUS; HOMINOIDEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84904059504     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2014.04.009     Document Type: Article

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