Plio-Pleistocene red clay deposits in the Pannonian basin: A review

Quaternary International

Volumn 240, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 35-43

  Kovács, János ^a   Fábián, Szabolcs Ákos ^a   Varga, Gábor ^a   Újvári, Gábor ^b   Varga, György ^c   Dezs, József ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b GEODETIC AND GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLAY MINERAL; LOESS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; STEPPE;

PANNONIAN BASIN;

EID: 79959719746     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.12.013     Document Type: Article

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