Val Sorda: An upper Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequence in northeastern Italy

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 30-47

  Ferraro, Francesca ^a   Terhorst, Birgit ^b   Ottner, Franz ^c   Cremaschi, Mauro ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chernozem; Clay minerals; Italy; Loess; Paleoclimate; Paleosol; Upper Pleistocene; Val Sorda

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749452963     PISSN: 10268774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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