Middle Weichselian palaeolacustrine basin in the Venta river valley and vicinity (northwest Lithuania), exemplified by the Purviai outcrop

Quaternary International

Volumn 207, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 14-25

  Satkunas, Jonas ^a   Grigiene, Alma ^a   Jusiene, Asta ^a   Damusyte, Aldona ^a   Mazeika, Jonas ^b  

^a Lithuanian Geological Survey   (Lithuania)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GLACIATION; GLACIER ADVANCE; INTERSTADIAL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITHOLOGY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OUTCROP; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; TILL; VEGETATION HISTORY; WEICHSELIAN;

BALTIC REGION; BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE; VENTA RIVER;

ARTEMISIA; BETULA NANA; CYPERACEAE; JUNIPERUS; MOLLUSCA; PICEA;

EID: 70349207752     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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