Pedogenic carbonate cutans as a record of the holocene history of relic tundra-steppes of the Upper Kolyma Valley (North-Eastern Asia)

Catena

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 185-195

  Pustovoytov, Konstantin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Carbonate cutans; Cryoarid soils; Radiocarbon dating; Tundra steppe ecosystem

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PEDOGENESIS; STEPPE; TUNDRA;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0032412676     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(98)00088-5     Document Type: Article

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