Wind erosion under cold climate: A Pleistocene periglacial mega-yardang system in Central Europe (Western Pannonian Basin, Hungary)

Geomorphology

Volumn 134, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 470-482

  Sebe, Krisztina ^a   Csillag, Gábor ^b   Ruszkiczay Rüdiger, Zsófia ^c   Fodor, László ^b   Thamó Bozsó, Edit ^b   Müller, Pál ^b   Braucher, Régis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Climate; Pannonian Basin; Periglacial; Pleistocene; Wind erosion; Yardang

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DEFLATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; HOLOCENE; LITHOLOGY; PERIGLACIAL PROCESS; PLEISTOCENE; SAND; SEMIARID REGION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WIND EROSION;

HUNGARY; PANNONIAN BASIN;

EID: 80053052324     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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