Dating of a Last Glacial loess sequence by relative geomagnetic palaeointensity: A case study from the Middle Danube Basin (Sütto,Hungary)

Quaternary International

Volumn 319, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-108

  Rolf, Christian ^a   Hambach, Ulrich ^b   Novothny, Ágnes ^a,c   Horváth, Erzsébet ^c   Schnepp, Elisabeth ^a,d  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAST GLACIAL; LOESS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSOL; PARAMETERIZATION; PEDOGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

CARPATHIAN BASIN; DANUBE BASIN; HUNGARY;

EID: 84892364584     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.050     Document Type: Article

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