Table of Contents

Preface
Evidence for paleoclimatic significance of grain size composite of loess 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 to Holocene, and the origin of Mongoloids
Liu Wu
A marked climatic change and mammal migration during Early Pleistocene time in North China
Cheng Jie, Tian Mingzhong and Cao Boxun
Environmental changes of the Yangtze River Delta since 200 KaPB with special reference to climatic background of the Tang Shan fauna, Nanjing
Comprehensive Research Group for Middle Pleistocene Nanjing Ape-Man and its Relic Site
Sedimentological, geochemical and pollen-spore evidence for a Late Miocene 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 in Chinese loess sections
Jia Rongfen, Peng Xianzhi, Xu Shiping, Li Rongsheng, Fan Gouchang and Lin Benhai
The climatic events recorded by loess near Zhengzhou, China, and compared 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 its climate transforming equation
Sun Jianzhong, Zhang Jun, Li Tonglu, Lu Yudong, Li Ping and Zhou Mingfu
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 terrestrial mollusc shells collected from Tibetan lake and Chinese loess sediments 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 and G. Bonani
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Zoige Basin of Eastern Tibetan Plateau 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 an atmospheric general circulation model and from geological records
Liu Xiaodong, An Zhisheng, Wu Xihao, P.J. Valdes and Buwen Dong