Age, sedimentation, and soil formation in the Val Sorda loess sequence, Northern Italy

Quaternary International

Volumn 204, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 54-64

  Ferraro, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHERNOZEM; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; EEMIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PROVENANCE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; WIND VELOCITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67650514823     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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