Chronostratigraphy and Stratigraphic Division of Red Soil in South China

详细信息   

• 责任者：Yuan Baoyin (Institute of Geology and Geophysics ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Beijing 100029 ; China) ; Xia Zhengkai
• 刊名：Quaternary Sciences
• 出版年：2008
• 卷期：28(1)
• 关键词：红壤 ; Red soils ; 中更新世 ; Middle Pleistocene ; 晚更新世 ; Upper Pleistocene ; 中国 ; China
• 页码：p.1-13
• 图表：7 illus., 1 table, 47 refs.
• 分类号：1400
• issnNo：ISSN1001-7410
• isbnNo：CN11-2708/P

摘要

Red soil in southern China is distributed to the north till the south of the Qinling Mountain-Huihe River line, and to the west till the east of Tibet, with an area of about 200×104km². It has the widest distribution in the form of Quaternary earthy deposits in China. Abundant information about geology, environment, climate, and Paleolithic culture has been available on it. The significance can be compared favourably with loess deposits in North China. In this paper, the authors only focus on the red weathering crusts developed on the Quaternary loose sediments. The Quaternary loose sediments in South China mainly consist of beach sand and coastal dune sand-the “Old Red Sand”, fluvial sediments and eolian deposits including Xiashu loess.