Preliminary reconstruction of the desert and sandy land distributions in China since the last interglacial period

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages 89-100

  Cheng, Huizhong ^a,b   Su, Zhizhu ^a,c   Yang, Ping ^a   Dong, Guangrong ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Desert; Sandy land; Spatial distribution; The glacial interglacial period

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAND USE; SAND; THERMAL EFFECTS; ZONING;

ARID CLIMATE; HYPER-ARID DESERT; SANDY LAND;

ARID REGIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERT; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

DESERTS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; SAND;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 8644263852     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/04zd0010     Document Type: Article

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