Malan loess

Malan loess or Malan loess ( Chinese  馬蘭 黃土  /  马兰 黄土 , Pinyin Mǎlán huángtǔ , English Loess of Malan / Malan Loess ) is a yellow loess of the late Pleistocene in China . He's after a location near the village Zhaitangchuan in Beijing Municipality Mentougou named.

According to him, the Malan Loess time ( 马兰黄土期 , Mǎlán huángtǔ qī , English Malan loess period ) named, which also includes the lacustrine fluvial-in the deposit layer of the southeast corner of the Ordos plateau contained Salawusu-faunal counts.

Main representatives of Malan loess time are palaeoloxodon namadicus , Equus hemionus , Equus przewalskii , Coelodonta antiquitatis , Camelus knoblochi , Cervus elaphus , Megaloceros (Sinomegaceros) ordosianus , Bubalus wansjocki , Bos primigenius and Crocuta ultima .

Ye Liangfu (1894–1949) examined the Malan loess in his work Beijing Xishan dizhi zhi (“History of the Geology of the Western Mountains of Beijing”), published in 1920 .

literature

• Ye Liangfu: Beijing Xishan dizhi zhi. 1920
• Zhongguo da baike quanshu : Kaoguxue (Great Chinese Encyclopedia: Volume Archeology). Beijing: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe, 1986 ( online text )
• Liu, Dongsheng 刘东生, Zhang Zonghu 张宗 祜, 1962: The Loess of China. Acta Geologica Sinica, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 1-14 (Chinese).

See also

• Nihewan time
• Gongwangling time
• Zhoukoudian time

• Luochan loess
• Lishi loess
• Wucheng loess

• West Mountains (Beijing 西山 (北京))

Web links

• Malan huangtu
• Malan huangtu
• Malan huangtu Malan huangtu
• Wastewater disposal and problem soils in Lanzhou, China
• Zhaitangchuan (Beijing Mentougou District)
• Loess deposits in China
• Ye Liangfu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zhongguo da baike quanshu: Kaoguxue (see literature )
2. ↑ The English Wikipedia has an article on the Western Hills .
3. ↑ 中國 大 百科全書  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.