The Belotinac section (Southern Serbia) at the southern limit of the European loess belt: Initial results

Quaternary International

Volumn 240, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 128-138

  Basarin, B ^a   Vandenberghe, D A G ^b   Markovic S B ^a   Catto, N ^c   Hambach, U ^d   Vasiliniuc, S ^b,e   Derese, C ^b   Roncevic S ^a   Vasiljević, Dj A ^a   Rajić, Lj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^e BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELT; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

BELOTINAC; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SERBIA; VOJVODINA;

EID: 79959718313     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.02.022     Document Type: Article

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