Weijian Zhou and Warren Beck at Field Site (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Weijian Zhou and Warren Beck at Field Site

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Weijian Zhou (left) of the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Xi'an and Warren Beck (right) of the University of Arizona at a cross-section of a hill near Xi'an, China. The layers of loess soil shown in the photo represent thousands of years of soil deposition.

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© 2009 Xian Feng, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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