Introducing an improved multi-proxy approach for paleoenvironmental reconstruction of loess-paleosol archives applied on the Late Pleistocene Nussloch sequence (SW Germany)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 410, Issue , 2014, Pages 300-315

  Gocke, M ^a,f   Hambach, U ^a   Eckmeier, E ^b   Schwark, L ^c   Zoller L ^a   Fuchs, M ^d   Loscher M ^e   Wiesenberg, G L B ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e University of Zurich ^*  (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

C and N contents; Color indices; Grain size; OSL dating; Rock magnetic properties; Root related features

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLOR; GRAIN SIZE; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NITROGEN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; ROCK MECHANICS; STRATIGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; GERMANY; NUSSLOCH;

EID: 84904438080     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.06.006     Document Type: Article

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