The High Glacial (Last Ice Age and Last Glacial Maximum) Ice Cover of High and Central Asia, with a Critical Review of Some Recent OSL and TCN Dates

Developments in Quaternary Science

Volumn 15, Issue , 2011, Pages 943-965

  Kuhle, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dating technique versus field evidence; Method of quaternary geology; Proof of tibetan ice sheet; TCN dating fallacy in high asia

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959831891     PISSN: 15710866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53447-7.00068-4     Document Type: Book

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