New insights on the loess/paleosol Quaternary stratigraphy from key sections in the U.S. Midwest

Catena

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-34

  Rutter, N W ^a   Velichko, A A ^b   Dlussky, K G ^a   Morozova, T D ^b   Little, E C ^a   Nechaev, V P ^b   Evans, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Loess; Paleosols; Quaternary; U.S. Midwest

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; QUATERNARY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARKANSAS; IOWA; MIDWEST; NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PEORIA;

EID: 33745967256     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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