Radiocarbon dating and oxygen isotope variations in late pleistocene syngenetic ice-wedges, Northern Siberia

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 335-345

  Vasil'chuk, Yurij K ^a   Vasil'chuk, Alla C ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF CELL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Late Pleistocene; Northern Eurasia; Oxygen isotopes; Radiocarbon dating; Syngenetic ice wedges

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001591909     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1530(199709)8:3<335::AID-PPP259>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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