The Paks loess-paleosol sequence: A record of chemical weathering and provenance for the last 800ka in the mid-Carpathian Basin

Quaternary International

Volumn 319, Issue , 2014, Pages 22-37

  Ójvári, Gábor ^a   Varga, Andrea ^b   Raucsik, Béla ^b   Kovács, János ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DOLOMITE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EROSION; LOESS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PHYLLOSILICATE; PLEISTOCENE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTATION;

CARPATHIAN BASIN;

EID: 84892365736     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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