Filling the gap: OSL data expanding 14C chronologies of Late Quaternary environmental change in the Libyan Desert

Quaternary International

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-52

  Bubenzer, Olaf ^a   Besler, Helga ^a   Hilgers, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING;

EID: 36549078101     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.03.014     Document Type: Article

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