The last Middle Pleistocene interglacial in Lithuania: Insights from ESR-dating of deposits at Valakampiai, and from stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental data

Geological Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 363-374

  Molodkov, Anatoly ^a   Bolikhovskaya, Nataliya ^b   Gaigalas, Algirdas ^c  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Correlation; ESR dating; Lithuania; Middle Pleistocene; Molluse shells; OIS 7; Palynostratigraphy; Snaigup l Interglacial

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; INTERGLACIAL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PLEISTOCENE;

BALTIC STATES; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE; VILNIUS; WORLD;

EID: 25844446071     PISSN: 16417291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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