Importance of biological loess crusts for loess formation in semi-arid environments

Quaternary International

Volumn 296, Issue , 2013, Pages 206-215

  Svirčev, Zorica ^a   Marković, Slobodan B ^a   Stevens, Thomas ^a,b   Codd, Geoffrey A ^c   Smalley, Ian ^d   Simeunović, Jelica ^a   Obreht, Igor ^a   Dulić, Tamara ^a   Pantelić, Dijana ^a   Hambach, Ulrich ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

BCS; BLC; BLOCDUST model; BSC

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; DUST; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; EROSION; GEOACCUMULATION; LOESS; MODELING; PRESERVATION; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEMIARID REGION;

CARPATHIAN BASIN;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84877141927     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.048     Document Type: Article

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