Pedosedimentary and climatic reconstruction of the last interglacial and early glacial loess-paleosol sequence in South Tadzhikistan

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Volumn 35, Issue 2-4, 1999, Pages 197-218

  Mestdagh, Hans ^a   Haesaerts, Paul ^a   Dodonov, Andrej ^b   Hus, Jozef ^c  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Loess; Palaeopedology; Soil micromorphology; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

PALEOCLIMATE; PEDOGENESIS; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

TAJIKISTAN;

EID: 0032992740     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(98)00100-3     Document Type: Article

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