Mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of Quaternary sediments from the Island of Susak (Northern Adriatic, Croatia)

Quaternary International

Volumn 234, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 32-49

  Mikulčić Pavlakovic, Snježana ^a   Crnjaković, Marta ^a   Tibljaš, Darko ^b   Šoufek, Marin ^a   Wacha, Lara ^c,d   Frechen, Manfred ^d   Lacković, Damir ^a  

^a CROATIAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c CROATIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Croatia)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE; LOESS; MINERALOGY; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TEPHRA; WEATHERING;

ADRIATIC SEA; CROATIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SUSAK;

EID: 79951952111     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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