An obliquity-controlled Early Pleistocene river terrace record from Western Turkey?

Quaternary Research

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 339-346

  Maddy, Darrel ^a   Demir, Tuncer ^b   Bridgland, David R ^c   Veldkamp, Antonie ^d   Stemerdink, Chris ^a   van der Schriek, Tim ^a   Westaway, Rob ^e  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early Pleistocene; River Terraces; Volcanism; Western Turkey

Indexed keywords

OBLIQUITY; ORBITAL FORCING; PLEISTOCENE; RIVER TERRACE; UPLIFT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TURKEY; WORLD;

AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

EID: 17544377186     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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