Revisiting the loess/palaeosol sequence in Paks, Hungary: A post-IR IRSL based chronology for the 'Young Loess Series'

Quaternary International

Volumn 319, Issue , 2014, Pages 88-98

  Thiel, Christine ^a,b   Horváth, Erzsébet ^c   Frechen, Manfred ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ;

HUNGARY; PAKS; TOLNA;

EID: 84892368948     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.045     Document Type: Article

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