Soil evolution on the Central Swiss Plateau: Comparing Middle Pleistocene with Last Glacial sediments

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-119

  Mailänder, Reiner ^a,b   Veit, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Geotechnisches Institut AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL DEPOSIT; PEDOGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 32144432291     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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