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Loess Deposits

Loess Deposits is an aeolian Quaternary sedimentary unit characterized by laterally extensive, largely unstratified blankets of unconsolidated, predominantly silt-sized, calcareous mineral particles with low clay content that originate mainly from wind-blown reworking of glacial and periglacial dust.

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2017–2026

492

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Loess

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Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits

Xiaoming Feng, Bojie Fu, Shilong Piao et al. · Nature Climate Change · 2016 · 2.1K citations

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Onset of Asian desertification by 22 Myr ago inferred from loess deposits in China

Zhengtang Guo, William F Ruddiman, Qingzhen Hao et al. · Nature · 2002 · 1.8K citations

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Hydrogeomorphic Ecosystem Responses to Natural and Anthropogenic Changes in the Loess Plateau of China

Bojie Fu, Shuai Wang, Yü Liu et al. · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 2017 · 1K citations · Full text

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Magnetic susceptibility evidence of monsoon variation on the Loess Plateau of central China during the last 130,000 years

Zhisheng An, George Kukla, Stephen C. Porter et al. · Quaternary Research · 1991 · 896 citations

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The nature, origin and accumulation of loess

Kenneth Pye · Quaternary Science Reviews · 1995 · 859 citations

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Authors

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  1. HL
    Huayu Lu

    Nanjing University, China

    74 publications · 5.8K citations

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  2. ZA
    Zhisheng An

    Institute of Earth Environment, China

    60 publications · 8.7K citations

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  3. TS
    Thomas Stevens

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    50 publications · 3.9K citations

    38

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  4. SB
    Slobodan B. Marković

    University of Novi Sad, Serbia

    54 publications · 4K citations

    33

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  5. MF
    Manfred Frechen

    LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics, Germany

    44 publications · 2.7K citations

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Institutions

1.2K

  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    97 h-index

    1.3K publications

    128.2K citations

  2. Institute of Earth Environment

    Xi'an, China

    72 h-index

    499 publications

    38.7K citations

  3. Institute of Geology and Geophysics

    Beijing, China

    67 h-index

    415 publications

    51.3K citations

  4. Nanjing University

    Nanjing, China

    50 h-index

    398 publications

    22.1K citations

  5. Lanzhou University

    Lanzhou, China

    47 h-index

    516 publications

    27.7K citations

  6. University of Bayreuth

    Bayreuth, Germany

    41 h-index

    115 publications

    11.1K citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    39 h-index

    210 publications

    18.5K citations

  8. Chang'an University

    Xi'an, China

    38 h-index

    289 publications

    16.4K citations

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Venues

  1. Quaternary International

    216 publications · 10.4K citations

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  2. Quaternary Science Reviews

    110 publications · 10K citations

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  3. Quaternary Research

    QR · 94 publications · 8.6K citations

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  4. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

    77 publications · 6.8K citations

    44

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  5. CATENA

    94 publications · 5.1K citations

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