Loess-palaeosol sequences in china and europe: Common values and geoconservation issues

Catena

Volumn 117, Issue , 2014, Pages 108-118

  Vasiljević, Djordjije A ^a   Marković, Slobodan B ^a   Hose, Thomas A ^b   Ding, Zhongli ^c   Guo, Zhengtang ^c   Liu, Xiuming ^d,e   Smalley, Ian ^f   Lukić, Tin ^a   Vujičić, Miroslav D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Europe; Geoconservation; Geoheritage; Loess; Serbia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894354196     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2013.06.005     Document Type: Article

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