The Matuyama/Brunhes boundary in loess sections in the south of the East European Plain and their correlation on the basis of palaeomagnetic and palaeopedologic data

Quaternary International

Volumn 201, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 60-66

  Faustov, Stanislav S ^a   Virina, Elena I ^a   Tsatskin, Alexander ^b   Gendler, Tatyana S ^c   Heller, Friedrich ^d  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRUNHES CHRON; INTERGLACIAL; LOESS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MATUYAMA CHRON; MORAINE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSOL; PEDOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATIGRAPHIC BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN PLAIN;

EID: 67349206139     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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