Geomorphological evidence for a late pleistocene glaciation in the high mountains of Taiwan dated with age estimates by Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL)

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 130, Issue , 2003, Pages 31-49

  Hebenstreit, Robert ^a,b   Böse, Margot ^a,b  

^a Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften ^*

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BOULDER; ERRATIC; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIATION; MORAINE; MOUNTAIN REGION; OPTICAL METHOD; PLEISTOCENE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HSUEH SHAN; NANHUTA SHAN; TAIWAN;

EID: 21344466867     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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