Pedostratigraphy and pedological and geochemical characterization of Las Carreras loess-paleosol sequence, Valle de Tafí, NW-Argentina

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 811-831

  Schellenberger, Andreas ^a   Veit, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; VOLCANOES;

GEOCHEMICAL; PEDOLOGY; PEDOSTRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ASH;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CHRONOLOGY; CLAY; GEOCHEMISTRY; KASTANOZEM; LEACHING; LOESS; LUVISOL; MICROMORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOSOL; PEDOLOGY; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL CHEMISTRY; VOLCANIC ASH;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645965278     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.07.011     Document Type: Article

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