Incorrect when uncorrected: Reconstructing vegetation history using n-alkane biomarkers in loess-paleosol sequences - A case study from the Saxonian loess region, Germany

Quaternary International

Volumn 296, Issue , 2013, Pages 108-116

  Zech, Michael ^a,b   Krause, Tobias ^a,c   Meszner, Sascha ^c   Faust, Dominik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EEMIAN; GLEYSOL; HOLOCENE; LAND DEGRADATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LOESS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; RECONSTRUCTION; TOPSOIL; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION HISTORY; WEICHSELIAN;

GERMANY; SAXONY;

CONIFERALES;

EID: 84877151206     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.01.023     Document Type: Article

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