Magnetostratigraphy and environmental magnetism in a Pleistocene sedimentary sequence, Marcos Paz, Argentina

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 749-763

  Bidegain, Juan Carlos ^a   Jurado, S ^a   Chaparro, M A E ^b   Gomez Samus M ^c   Zicarelli, S ^a   Parodi, A V ^a  

^a Centro Científico y Tecnológico Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^c CONICET LEMIT ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Loess; Magnetoclimatology; Magnetostratigraphy; Paleoenvironments; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

LOESS; MAGNETOCLIMATOLOGY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENTS; PLEISTOCENE;

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; GEOMAGNETISM; SEDIMENTS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PEDOGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SILTY CLAY;

EID: 84877661008     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1958-7     Document Type: Article

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