How to resolve pleistocene stratigraphic problems by different methods? A case study from eastern Poland

Geological Quarterly

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 235-250

  Terpiłowski, Sławomir ^a   Zieliñski, Tomasz ^b   Kusiak, Jarosław ^a   Pidek, Irena A ^a   Czubla, Piotr ^c   Hrynowiecka, Anna ^d   Godlewska, Anna ^a   Zieliñski, Paweł ^a   Małek, Marzena ^e  

^a MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^d POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^e Geological Enterprise POLGEOL SA Lublin Office   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chronostratigraphy; Eastern Poland; Geochronology; Interglacial meandering river; Mazovian Holsteinian; Pleis to cene

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSIT; INTERGLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MEANDER; OUTWASH; PALYNOLOGY; PETROGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

POLAND;

EID: 84908037044     PISSN: 16417291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7306/gq.1158     Document Type: Article

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