Palaeoclimatic record from a loess-soil profile in northeastern Bulgaria-II. Correlation with global climatic events during the Pleistocene

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 533-540

  Jordanova, Diana ^a,c   Petersen, Nikolai ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Loess palaeosol sediments; Palaeoclimate; Rock magnetism

Indexed keywords

LOESS; MAGNETIC MINERAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE;

BULGARIA;

EID: 0032758501     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00873.x     Document Type: Article

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