Research Catalog

Title

Wind blown sediments in the Quaternary record / edited by Edward Derbyshire.

Publication

West Sussex, England : Published on behalf of the Quaternary Research Association by John Wiley & Sons, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Derbyshire, Edward, 1932-
• Quaternary Research Association (Great Britain)
• International Union for Quaternary Research

Description

viii, 96 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Quaternary proceedings ; no. 4

Uniform Title

Quaternary proceedings no. 4.

Subject

• From 2 million years ago
• Geology, Stratigraphic > Quaternary > Congresses
• Sediments (Geology) > Congresses
• Wind erosion > Congresses
• Sediment transport > Congresses
• Eolian processes > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "A selection of papers presented at a joint meeting of the Quaternary Research Association (QRA) and the Commissions on Stratigraphy, Glacial Deposits, Loess, and Palaeopedology of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) held at Royal Holloway, University of London, 4-7 January 1994"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Accumulation rate of loess in Tadjikistan and China : relationship with global ice volume cycles / N.J. Shackleton, Z. An, A.E. Dodonov, J. Gavin, G.J. Kukla, V.A. Ranov and L.P. Zhou -- Loess-palaeosol sequences as recorders of palaeoclimatic variations during the last glacial-interglacial cycle : some problems of correlation in north-central China / E. Derbyshire, D. Keen, R.A. Kemp, T.A. Rolph, J. Shaw and X.M. Meng -- A comparison of magnetic fabrics from loessic silts scross the Tibetan Front, western China / M.L. Clarke -- Magnetic property and particle size variations in the late Pleistocene and Holocene parts of the Dadongling loess section near Xining, China / F.H. Chen, R.J. Wu, D. Pompei and F. Oldfield -- Sedimentological characteristics and rare earth element fingerprinting of Tibetan silts and their relationship with the sediments of the western Chinese loess plateau / M.L. Clarke -- The citrate-bicarbonate-dithionite (CBD) removable magnetic component of Chinese loess / X.M. Lui, T.C. Rolph and J. Bloemendal -- Soils in aeolian sequences as evidence of Quaternary climatic change : problems and possible solutions / J.A. Catt -- Loess-palaeosol sequences in Tadjikistan as a palaeoclimatic record of the Quaternary in Central Asia / A. Bronger, R. Winter, O. Derevjanko and S. Aldag -- Weathering and pedogenesis of wind-blown sediments in the Mount Carmel caves, Israel / A. Tsatskin, M. Weinstein-Evron and A. Ronen.

ISBN

0471958603

OCLC

32878635

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library