Optical dating of Romanian loess using fine-grained quartz

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 143-148

  Timar, A ^a   Vandenberghe, D ^b   Panaiotu, E C ^c   Panaiotu, C G ^c   Necula, C ^c   Cosma, C ^a   van den haute, P ^b  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Dating; Loess; OSL; Quartz; Romania

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSOL; QUARTZ;

DOBROGEA; ROMANIA;

EID: 77649339580     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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