• 责任者：Liu Caicai (State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics ; Institute of Geology ; China Earthquake Administration ; Beijing 100029 ; China) ; Deng Chenglong
• 刊名：Earth Science Frontiers
• 出版年：2011
• 卷期：18(4)
• 关键词：第四纪 ; Quaternary ; 磁性地层学 ; magnetostratigraphy ; 红色土 ; Red soil ; 中国 ; China
• 页码：p.158-170
• 图表：12 illus., 56 refs.
• 分类号：1200
• issnNo：ISSN1005-2321
• isbnNo：CN11-3370/P

The red soil is the most widely distributed Quaternary deposit in namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />China, which contains a wealth of information on paleoclimate, paleogeography, and hominine evolution. This paper reviews magnetostratigraphic studies of the red soil sequences in southern China, some of which bear artifact stone tools. The red soils contain four magnetic minerals of goethite, maghemite, magnetite and hematite. Magnetite and hematite were identified as the main carriers of the characteristic remnant magnetizations. Paleomagnetic findings suggest that the red soil sequences in southern China span a period from the late Matuyama reverse chron to the early-middle Brunhes normal chron, and that the sequences began to accumulate no later than the Jaramillo age (that is, cnarDate="False" IsROCDate="False">a.1.1 Ma).namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />