Panxian Dadong, South China: establishing a record of Middle Pleistocene climatic changes.

inquiry OF THE CHINESE AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN PLEISTOCENE ENVIRONMENT has been greatly enriched by the agency of the combined use of geological, geographical, bio-stratigraphic, and chemical analyses. A major focus has been upon understanding the influence of the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau upon the development of the East Asian monsoon climatic regime and the identification of climatic oscillations from one extremity to the other of the Pleistocene. The Quaternary climates of southerly and Southwest China are not as well known as those of the east or north, on the other hand it appears that the consequences of the environment on the