Loess records | China

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1429-1440

  Porter, S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Be; China; East Asian Monsoon; Heinrich events; Huang He (Yellow River); Loess; Loess Plateau; magnetic susceptibility; Malan Loess; Mapping Spectral Variability in Global Climate Project; Marine Isotope Stage; marine oxygen isotope stages; Milankovitch; MIS; paleosol; Red Clay; SPECMAP; SUS; Wei He

Indexed keywords

EID: 85079763048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-44-452747-8/00160-5     Document Type: Chapter

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