The last million years recorded at the Stari Slankamen (Northern Serbia) loess-palaeosol sequence: Revised chronostratigraphy and long-term environmental trends

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1142-1154

  Marković, Slobodan B ^a   Hambach, Ulrich ^b   Stevens, Thomas ^c   Kukla, George J ^d   Heller, Friedrich ^e   McCoy, William D ^f   Oches, Eric A ^g   Buggle, Björn ^b   Zöller, Ludwig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^g BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminostratigraphy; Loess; Magnetism; Matuyama Brunhes; Palaeoclimate; Palaeosol; Pleistocene; Serbia; Stari Slankamen

Indexed keywords

AMINOSTRATIGRAPHY; LOESS; MATUYAMA-BRUNHES; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; SERBIA; STARI SLANKAMEN;

DEMAGNETIZATION; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

AIR MASS; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEMAGNETIZATION; LOESS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSOL; QUATERNARY;

CARPATHIAN BASIN; SERBIA; STARI SLANKAMEN;

EID: 79955729618     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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