Late pleistocene stratigraphy and sedimentary environments of the Severnaya Dvina-Vychegda region in northwestern Russia

Boreas

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 759-779

  Lyså, Astrid ^a   Larsen, Eiliv ^a,b   Buylaert, Jan Pieter ^c   Fredin, Ola ^a,b   Jensen, Maria A ^d   Kuznetsov, Denis ^e   Murray, Andrew S ^c   Subetto, Dmitry A ^f   van Welden, Aurelien ^g  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^e ST PETERSBURG INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS AND AUTOMATION   (Russian Federation)

^f HERZEN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

^g CGG   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; EEMIAN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; WATER LEVEL; WEICHSELIAN;

NORTHERN DVINA RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VYCHEGDA RIVER;

EID: 84907863864     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12080     Document Type: Article

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