Magnetostratigraphy of Chinese loess-paleosol sequences

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 150, Issue , 2015, Pages 139-167

  Liu, Qingsong ^a   Jin, Chunsheng ^a   Hu, Pengxiang ^a   Jiang, Zhaoxia ^a   Ge, Kunpeng ^a   Roberts, Andrew P ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese loess; Geomagnetic excursions; Geomagnetic reversals; Magnetostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; LOESS; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 84939481144     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.07.009     Document Type: Review

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