Humid glacials, arid interglacials? Critical thoughts on pedogenesis and paleoclimate based on multi-proxy analyses of the loess-paleosol sequence Crvenka, Northern Serbia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 387, Issue , 2013, Pages 165-175

  Zech, Roland ^a,d   Zech, Michael ^b   Marković, Slobodan ^c   Hambach, Ulrich ^b   Huang, Yongsong ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^d GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Deuterium; GDGTs; Loess; Mediterranean; Paleosols

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ARID ENVIRONMENT; BIOMARKER; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL; LIPID; LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; SHRUB; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CRVENKA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SERBIA;

EID: 84882765928     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.07.023     Document Type: Article

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