Loess in the Vojvodina region (Northern Serbia): An essential link between European and Asian Pleistocene environments

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 173-188

  Markovic S B ^a   Hambach, U ^b   Stevens, T ^a,c   Jovanovic M ^a   O'Hara Dhand, K ^d   Basarin, B ^a   Lu, H ^e   Smalley, I ^d   Buggle, B ^b   Zech, M ^b   Svircev Z ^a   Sumegi P ^f   Milojkovic N ^a   Zoller L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

China; Climate; Eurasia; Loess; Magnetic susceptibility; Pleistocene; Serbia

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DUST; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CHINA; SERBIA; VOJVODINA;

EID: 84867592922     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016774600001578     Document Type: Article

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