Luminescence dating of Upper Pleistocene loess from the Island of Susak in Croatia

Quaternary International

Volumn 234, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 50-61

  Wacha, Lara ^a,b   Mikulčić Pavlaković, Snježana ^c   Novothny, Ágnes ^a   Crnjaković, Marta ^c   Frechen, Manfred ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^b CROATIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Croatia)

^c CROATIAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CLIMATE VARIATION; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; REGRESSION; TEPHRA;

ADRIATIC SEA; CROATIA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PO RIVER; SUSAK;

EID: 79951959705     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.12.017     Document Type: Article

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