Mass accumulation rate changes in Chinese loess during MIS 2, and asynchrony with records from Greenland ice cores and North Pacific Ocean sediments during the Last Glacial Maximum

Aeolian Research

Volumn 19, Issue , 2015, Pages 251-258

  Kang, Shugang ^a   Roberts, Helen M ^b   Wang, Xulong ^a   An, Zhisheng ^a   Wang, Min ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese loess; Dust accumulation; East Asian winter monsoon; Last Glacial Maximum; Quartz OSL; Westerly jet

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CHRONOLOGY; DEGLACIATION; DUST; ICE CORE; JET FLOW; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LOESS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MONSOON; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ; WESTERLY; WINTER;

ARCTIC; CHINA; GREENLAND; LOESS PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84949086530     PISSN: 18759637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2015.05.005     Document Type: Article

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