Late Pleistocene climatic variations at Achenheim, France, based on a magnetic susceptibility and TL chronology of loess

Quaternary Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 255-263

  Rousseau, Denis Didier ^a,b   Zöller, Ludwig ^c   Valet, Jean Pierre ^d  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c Forschungsstelle Archaometrie der H   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE;

FRANCE;

EID: 0032075860     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1998.1972     Document Type: Article

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