Non-magnetic indicators of pedogenesis related to loess magnetic enhancement and depletion: Examples from the Czech Republic and southern Siberia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 967-979

  Bábek, Ondřej ^a,b   Chlachula, Jiří ^c,d   Grygar, Tomáš Matys ^e  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c TOMAS BATA UNIVERSITY IN ZLIN   (Czech Republic)

^d ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cation exchange capacity; Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy; Long distance stratigraphic correlation; Magnetic susceptibility; Pedogenesis; Sediment color

Indexed keywords

CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITIES; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; LONG-DISTANCE STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; PEDOGENESIS; SEDIMENT COLOR;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COLOR; CORRELATION METHODS; GEOCHEMISTRY; LAKES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; POSITIVE IONS; REFLECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; SPECTROSCOPY; STRATIGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

MAGNETISM;

BROWN SOIL; CHERNOZEM; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ION EXCHANGE; LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; REFLECTANCE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; WEATHERING;

CZECH REPUBLIC; LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 79952438602     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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