Establishing Quaternary as a formal international period/system

Episodes

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 230-233

  Ogg, James G ^a   Pillans, Brad ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; GLACIOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY;

EID: 48849084372     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2008/v31i2/008     Document Type: Article

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