Sediments of biśnik cave (Poland): Lithology and stratigraphy of the middle palaeolithic site

Quaternary International

Volumn 326-327, Issue , 2014, Pages 6-19

  Krajcarz, Maciej T ^a   Bosák, Pavel ^b   Šlechta, Stanislav ^b   Pruner, Petr ^b   Komar, Maryna ^c,d   Dresler, Justyna ^e   Madeyska, Teresa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^d Department of stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Cenozoic deposits   (Ukraine)

^e MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOMARKER; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOSSIL RECORD; LITHOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEONTOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLIOCENE; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CRACOW; CZESTOCHOWA [POLAND]; MALOPOLSKIE; POLAND;

EID: 84896663398     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.10.017     Document Type: Article

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