The chronology of the Šarengrad II loess-palaeosol section (Eastern Croatia)

Geologia Croatica

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 191-203

  Wacha, Lara ^a,b   Galović, Lidija ^a   Koloszár, László ^c   Magyari, Árpád ^c,d   Chikán, Géza ^c   Marsi, István ^c  

^a CROATIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Croatia)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^c GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^d MOL Group   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Loess palaeosol; Luminescence dating; Middle pleistocene; arengrad

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; INTERGLACIAL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE;

CROATIA; PANNONIAN BASIN;

EID: 84887358669     PISSN: 1330030X     EISSN: 13334875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4154/gc.2013.18     Document Type: Article

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