Late Pleistocene glacial chronology of the Pietrele Valley, Retezat Mountains, Southern Carpathians constrained by 10Be exposure ages and pedological investigations

Quaternary International

Volumn 164-165, Issue , 2007, Pages 151-169

  Reuther, Anne U ^a   Urdea, Petru ^b   Geiger, Christian ^a   Ivy Ochs, Susan ^c   Niller, Hans Peter ^a   Kubik, Peter W ^d   Heine, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIER ADVANCE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MORAINE; PLEISTOCENE;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

CAPRA;

EID: 34147111712     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2006.10.011     Document Type: Article

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