An environmental magnetic fingerprint of periglacial loess: Records of Late Pleistocene loess-palaeosol sequences from Eastern Germany

Quaternary International

Volumn 296, Issue , 2013, Pages 82-93

  Baumgart, Philipp ^a   Hambach, Ulrich ^b   Meszner, Sascha ^a   Faust, Dominik ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL; LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE; ROCK PROPERTY; STRATIGRAPHY; WEICHSELIAN;

GERMANY; SAXONY;

EID: 84877124898     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.12.021     Document Type: Article

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