Historical developments and recent advances in amino acid geochronology applied to loess research: Examples form North America, Europe, and China

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 173-192

  Oches, Eric A ^a   McCoy, William D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid geochonology; Loess; Mollusks; Pleistocene; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LOESS; PLEISTOCENE; RACEMIZATION;

EID: 0034866623     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-8252(01)00047-2     Document Type: Article

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