Cliff-front aeolian and colluvial deposits, Mallorca, Western Mediterranean: A record of climatic and environmental change during the last glacial period

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 217-232

  Clemmensen, Lars B ^a   Lisborg, Thomas ^a   Fornós, Joan J ^b   Bromley, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aeolian sediments; Climate cycles; Colluvial sediments; Mallorca; Upper pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009508215     PISSN: 00116297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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