Abrupt shifts in the late Cenozoic envir
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Shangfa Xiong; Zhongli Ding; Shiling Yang
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Aeolian deposits can provide a sensitive record of climatic change. Two abrupt changes in grain size and accumulation rate have been identified at __c__. 2.4–2.6 Ma and 1.1–1.2 Ma in the loess–palaeosol–red clay sequences from the Loess Plateau of China. These changes are apparent in two major stepw