The ESR age of Portlandia arctica shells from glacial deposits of Central Latvia: An answer to a controversy on the age and genesis of their enclosing sediments

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1077-1094

  Molodkov, Anatoly ^a   Dreimanis, Aleksis ^b   Aboltinš, Ojars ^c   Raukas, Anto ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; WEICHSELIAN;

LATVIA;

PORTLANDIA ARCTICA;

EID: 0031767591     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00030-4     Document Type: Article

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