A Mid-Late Quaternary loess-paleosol record in Simmons Farm in southern Illinois, USA

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 93-106

  Wang, Hong ^a   Lundstrom, Craig C ^b   Zhang, Zhaofeng ^b   Grimley, David A ^a   Balsam, William L ^c  

^a ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; SOILS; STRATIGRAPHY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; AND ENVIRONMENTS; ILLINOISES; LATE QUATERNARIES; MISSISSIPPI; OPTICAL-; PALEOCLIMATE; SOIL MORPHOLOGIES; STIMULATED LUMINESCENCES; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORKS; TWO PHASES;

SILT;

CHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PEORIA;

EID: 57749203367     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.09.021     Document Type: Article

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