Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-mzp66 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-28T23:33:59.889Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Physiographical History of Western Szechuans— A Review and Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

H. B. Whittington
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Recent writings by Cotton (1944, 1945) and Richardson (1945) have drawn the attention of geologists in this country to the Pleistocene history of West China, and in particular to the river terraces and their mode of formation. Harland has now re-stated the problems of the physiographical history of Western Szechuan, and drawn attention to the gaps in our knowledge. This paper 1 is both complementary and supplementary to that of Richardson (1943; reviewed by Cotton, 1944). During the past two years I have had opportunity to study the geomorphology of the Border Ranges of north-western Szechuan, and this review is, therefore, accompanied by a discussion of certain points in the light of my own findings and the work of other writers.

Type
Articles
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 83 , Issue 3 , June 1946 , pp. 141 - 146
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1946

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Barbour, G. B., 1935. Correlation by Fluviatile Terraces. Bull. Geol. Soc. China, xiv, 469–481.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cotton, C. A., 1944. Review of The Ice Age in West China, by H. L. Richardson. Geol. Mag., lxxxi, 272–4.Google Scholar
Cotton, C. A., 1945. The Significance of Terraces due to Climatic Oscillation. Geol. Mag., lxxxii, 10–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hanson-Lowe, J., 1939. The Structure of the Lower Yangtze Terraces. Geogr. Journ., xciii, 54–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lee, J. S., 1939. The Geology of China. Thos. Murby and Co., London.Google Scholar
Paterson, T. T., 1941. On a World Correlation of the Pleistocene. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, lx, 373–425.Google Scholar
Richardson, H. L., 1943. The Ice Age in West China. Journ. West China Border Res. Soc., xiv, Ser. B. 1–27.Google Scholar
Richardson, H. L., 1945. Discussion: The Significance of Terraces due to Climatic Oscillation. Geol. Mag., lxxxii, 16–18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Whittington, H. B., 1944. Geological Reconnaissance between Chokechi and Kuanhsien, North-Western Szechuan. Mem. Geol. Surv. Szechuan, Chungking, No. iii.Google Scholar