A detailed post-IR IRSL chronology for the last interglacial soil at the Jingbian loess site (northern China)

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 194-199

  Buylaert, Jan Pieter ^a,b   Yeo, Eun Young ^a   Thiel, Christine ^a,b,c   Yi, Shuangwen ^d   Stevens, Thomas ^e   Thompson, Warren ^f   Frechen, Manfred ^c   Murray, Andrew ^a   Lu, Huayu ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese loess; High sampling density; Last interglacial soil (S1); Post IR IRSL

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CHRONOLOGY; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE; PLATEAU;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84947046678     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2015.02.022     Document Type: Article

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