Loess Thickness Variations Across the Loess Plateau of China

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 715-727

  Zhu, Yuanjun ^a,b,d   Jia, Xiaoxu ^c,d   Shao, Mingan ^a,b,c,d  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Digital elevation map (DEM); Loess; Neighborhood analysis; Soil thickness; The Loess Plateau

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; LANDFORMS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SOIL MOISTURE; SURVEYING; WATER RESOURCES;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MAP; LOESS; LOESS PLATEAU; NEIGHBORHOOD ANALYSIS; SOIL THICKNESS;

SEDIMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARCGIS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LOESS; MOUNTAIN REGION; PLATEAU; SEDIMENT THICKNESS;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 85041223337     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: 15730956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-018-9462-6     Document Type: Review

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