Late Pleistocene variations of the background aeolian dust concentration in the Carpathian Basin: An estimate using decomposition of grain-size distribution curves of loess deposits

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 159-171

  Varga, G ^a   Kovacs J ^b,c   Ujvari G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aeolian dust; Dust concentration; Grain size; Loess; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARID REGION; DUST STORM; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; LOESS; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CARPATHIAN BASIN;

EID: 84867501397     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016774600001566     Document Type: Article

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