Uranium-series dating of travertine from Sütto{double acute}: Implications for reconstruction of environmental change in Hungary

Quaternary International

Volumn 222, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 178-193

  Sierralta, Melanie ^a   Kele, Sándor ^b   Melcher, Frank ^c   Hambach, Ulrich ^d   Reinders, Jan ^d   van Geldern, Robert ^a,e   Frechen, Manfred ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; TRAVERTINE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

HUNGARY;

EID: 77955049780     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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