Last glaciation of the Šara Range (Balkan peninsula): Increasing dryness from the LGM to the Holocene

Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 146-158

  Kuhlemann, Joachim ^a,b   Milivojević, Milovan ^c   Krumrei, Ingrid ^b   Kubik, Peter W ^d  

^a Hauptabteilung fur die Sicherheit der Kernanlagen HSK   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ELA; LGM; Pleistocene glaciation; ara Range; Wuermian

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATING METHOD; GLACIER; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST GLACIATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

AFRICA; BALKANS; BALTIC SHIELD; EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SAHARA;

EID: 70349993600     PISSN: 20727151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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