Dust deposition and climate in the Carpathian Basin over an independently dated last glacial-interglacial cycle

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 662-681

  Stevens, Thomas ^a   Marković, Slobodan B ^b   Zech, Michael ^c   Hambach, Ulrich ^c   Sümegi, Pal ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Carpathian Basin; Dust; Last glacial; Loess; Luminescence; Serbia

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEMS; ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS; AVERAGE VALUES; CARPATHIAN BASIN; CLIMATE PROXIES; DUST DEPOSITION; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; FADING RATE; HEINRICH EVENTS; ICE SHEET; IN-LINE; INTERGLACIALS; LAST GLACIAL; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE MODELS; MARINE RECORD; NORTH ATLANTIC; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; QUARTZ OSL; SERBIA; STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; TIME-SCALES;

DUST; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; QUARTZ;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; AIR MASS; ANTICYCLONE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GRAIN SIZE; HEINRICH EVENT; ICE SHEET; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MARINE RECORD; PALEOSOL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TELECONNECTION;

CARPATHIAN BASIN; SERBIA; VOJVODINA;

EID: 79952042448     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.011     Document Type: Article

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