Lateglacial calendar year chronology based on annually laminated sediments from Lake Meerfelder Maar, Germany

Quaternary International

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-25

  Brauer, Achim ^a,b   Endres, Christoph ^a   Negendank, Jörg F W ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Calendar year timescale; Lake sediments; Lateglacial; Teleconnection; Varves

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; LAMINATION; LATE GLACIAL; VARVE;

EIFEL; GERMANY; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

EID: 0033510699     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-6182(99)00014-2     Document Type: Article

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