Short climatic oscillations in a western European loess sequence (Kesselt, Belgium)

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 471-485

  Vandenberghe, Jef ^a   Huijzer, Bert S ^a   Mücher, Herman ^b   Laan, Walter ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Grain size analysis; Loess; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeosol; Soil micromorphology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CYCLE; GRAIN SIZE; LOESS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; PALEOSOL;

BELGIUM;

EID: 0032453339     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1417(1998090)13:5<471::AID-JQS401>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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