Lake sediments deposited on the Flims rockslide mass: The key to date the largest mass movement of the Alps

Terra Nova

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 252-258

  Deplazes, Gaudenz ^a,c   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^a,b   Hajdas, Irka ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LANDSLIDE; MASS MOVEMENT;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34547431568     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00743.x     Document Type: Article

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