The Veldwezelt site (province of Limburg, Belgium): Environmental and stratigraphical interpretations

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 90, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 73-94

  Meijs, E P M ^a  

^a ArcheoGeolab   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Belgium; Cryogenesis; Loess; Palaeoenvironment; Pedology; Pleistocene; Sedimentology; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; EROSION; FAUNA; HIATUS; ICE CORE; LOESS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEDOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

BELGIUM; LIMBURG [BELGIUM];

EID: 82155186704     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016774600001037     Document Type: Article

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