Dust - A geology-orientated attempt to reappraise the natural components, amounts, inputs to sediment, and importance for correlation purposes

Geologica Belgica

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 367-384

  Hladil, Jindrich ^a   Cejchan, Petr ^a   Babek, Ondrej ^b   Koptikova, Leona ^a   Navratil, Tomas ^a   Kubinova, Petra ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Dust teleconnection; Holocene; Iron contents; Limestones; Natural dust; Particulate matter; Present; Sedimentary background; Sedimentary inputs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954585239     PISSN: 13748505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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