Quaternary Geology

Contents:

Preface

Evidence for paleoclimatic significance of grain size composite ofloess deposit in central Chinese loess plateau
Lu Huayu, An Zhisheng, J. Vandenberghe and G. Nugteren

Toward a denser biotic record for questions of finer scale
L.J. Flynn and Wang Banyue

The dental continuity of humans in China from Pleistocene toHolocene, and the origin of Mongoloids
Liu Wu

A marked climatic change and mammal migration during EarlyPleistocene time in North China
Cheng Jie, Tian Mingzhong and Cao Boxun

Environmental changes of the Yangtze River Delta since 200 KaPB withspecial reference to climatic background of the Tang Shan fauna,Nanjing
Comprehensive Research Group for Middle Pleistocene NanjingApe-Man and its Relic Site

Sedimentological, geochemical and pollen-spore evidence for a LateMiocene expansion of grasslands/dry climates in Western China
Li Jijun, Fang Xiaomin and Ma Yuzhen

The tropical loess
M. Iriondo and D.M. Kröhling

Roles of organic matter on higher susceptibility in the paleosols inChinese loess sections
Jia Rongfen, Peng Xianzhi, Xu Shiping, Li Rongsheng, FanGouchang and Lin Benhai

The climatic events recorded by loess near Zhengzhou, China, andcompared with Heinrich events
Xiao Huaguo, Jiang Fuchu, Wu Xihao, Xue Bin and Wang Sumin

A climate proxy index for Chinese loess: total iron content and itsclimate transforming equation
Sun Jianzhong, Zhang Jun, Li Tonglu, Lu Yudong, Li Ping and ZhouMingfu

The cosmic dust in the loess since Last Glaciation, China
Zhao Jixiang, Xiao Yonglin, An Zhisheng and Lu Huayu

The reliability of radiocarbon dates from fresh water and terrestrialmollusc shells collected from Tibetan lake and Chinese loesssediments profiles
Zhou Weijian, M.J. Head, Wang Fubao, S.C. Porter, J.D. Donahue,Liu Yu and Zhou Mingfu

Dating of Yanwo Lake deposits, Antarctica
Shen Chengde, Chen Xiaobo, Yi Weixi, Liu Dongsheng, J. Beer andG. Bonani

Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Zoige Basin of Eastern TibetanPlateau during the past 140 Kyrs
Wang Sumin and Xue Bin

Distribution of Holocene beachrock in China and climatic changes
Yang Shouren, Jiang Qinhua and Yang Song

The time idea in geology
Jiang Shaowen, Zhang Xuanyang and Liu Rongmo

East Asian paleoclimates of the last glacial maximum in anatmospheric general circulation model and from geological records
Liu Xiaodong, An Zhisheng, Wu Xihao, P.J. Valdes and Buwen Dong

1997; iv+172 pages
ISBN 90-6764-243-6
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