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Luminescence dating of loess deposits from the Remagen-Schwalbenberg site, Western Germany Cover

Luminescence dating of loess deposits from the Remagen-Schwalbenberg site, Western Germany

Geochronometria
Volume 42 (2015): Issue 1 (January 2015)
By: Nicole Klasen,  Peter Fischer,  Frank Lehmkuhl and  Alexandra Hilgers  
Open Access
|Mar 2015

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geochr-2015-0008 | Journal eISSN: 1897-1695
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Language: English
Submitted on: May 23, 2014
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Published on: Mar 27, 2015
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Keywords:
luminescence dating,
loess,
last glacial cycle,
Middle Rhine,
Eltville tephra,
geochemical analysis
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