Weichselian sediment succession at Ruunaa, Finland, indicating a Mid-Weichselian ice-free interval in eastern Fennoscandia

Boreas

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 234-244

  Lunkka, Juha Pekka ^a   Murray, Andrew ^b   Korpela, Kauko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ICE CORE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WEICHSELIAN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FENNOSCANDIA; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 62749159765     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.00021.x     Document Type: Article

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