Timing of the last interglacial in Northern Europe derived from Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of a terrestrial Saalian-Eemian-Weichselian sedimentary sequence in NE-Germany

Quaternary International

Volumn 241, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 79-96

  Lüthgens, Christopher ^a   Böse, Margot ^a   Lauer, Tobias ^c   Krbetschek, Matthias ^b   Strahl, Jaqueline ^d   Wenske, Dirk ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^d Landesamt für Bergbau Geologie und Rohstoffe Brandenburg Zentrale Dienste Recht   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EEMIAN; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MARL; PALYNOLOGY; SAALIAN; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; WEICHSELIAN;

BASILICATA; BRANDENBURG; GERMANY; ITALY; LAGO GRANDE DI MONTICCHIO; NORTHERN EUROPE; POTENZA;

EID: 79960834259     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.06.026     Document Type: Article

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