The role of time versus climate in the formation of deep soils of the apennine fringe of the Po Valley, Italy

Quaternary International

Volumn 51-52, Issue , 1998, Pages 95-107

  Busacca, Alan ^a   Cremaschi, Mauro ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PEDOGENESIS; QUATERNARY; TIMESCALE;

ITALY;

EID: 0032463892     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-6182(97)00036-0     Document Type: Article

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