Upper Pleistocene stratigraphy at the Medininkai site, eastern Lithuania: A continuous record of the Eemian-Weichselian sequence

Boreas

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 627-641

  Satkunas, Jonas ^a   Grigiene, Alma ^a   Velichkevich, Felix ^b   Robertsson, Ann Marie ^c   Sandgren, Per ^d  

^a Geological Survey of Lithuania   (Lithuania)

^b Institute of Geochemistry and Geophysics Minsk   (Belarus)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EEMIAN; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEAT; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY; WEICHSELIAN;

LITHUANIA; MEDININKAI;

EID: 0242458971     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2003.tb01240.x     Document Type: Article

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