Recent progress in Quaternary dating methods. Special issue
Archaeology ; Dating ; Methodology ; Quaternary ; Sediment filling
This volume of Quaternary Science Journal comprises a number of articles reviewing the present status of physical dating methods in Quaternary research, with a special focus on continental deposits and archaeological materials. The ten articles
in the present volume aim to provide the non-specialist with an overview on the physical basis of different dating approaches. - (IfL)
The application of lichenometry in dating of glacier deposits
Cold area ; Dating ; Erratic boulder ; Glacial features ; Greenland ; Lichenometry ; Moraine
Different field methods, which may result in lichen growth curves and lichenometric dating curves, respectively, are outlined and discussed. Emphasis is laid on various factors that need to be taken into consideration in order to avoid errors
Lichenometric dating of landslide episodes in the Western part of the Polish Flysch Carpathians
Carpathian Mountains ; Dating ; Flysch ; Holocene ; Landslide ; Lichenometry ; Mass movement ; Poland ; Slope
This paper presents the basics of lichenometry as well as its applications in geomorphological research. Also presented are results of lichenometric dating of landslide-rockfall walls in the western part of the Polish Flysch Carpathians. The study
Caractéristiques des saisons thermiques à Poznań au cours de la période 2001-2008
Années 2001-2008 ; Climat ; Indicateur ; Pologne ; Poznań ; Saison ; Température ; Température de l'air
The article presents the characteristics of the thermal seasons of the year in Poznań, Poland, in the years 2001-2008. Data for mean 24-hour air temperatures were used to identify the dates of onset and end, and hence the durations, of 8 seasons
Anomalie climatique ; Climat ; Date2008 ; Distribution spatiale ; Monde ; Phénomène exceptionnel ; Précipitation ; Sécheresse
Description-explication du temps qu'il a fait en 2008, à l'échelle planétaire puis à l'échelle régionale, en insistant sur les phénomènes exceptionnels. L'année a été moins chaude que la précédente. De fortes précipitations ont affecté le nord de
On met l'accent sur la relation entre le méga-événement du Relais de la Torche Olympique aux Jeux de Pékin 2008 et les imaginations contemporaines sur la position géopolitique de la Chine et le géo-corpus national chinois. La couverture médiatique
Apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He dating of teschenite intrusions gives time constraints on accretionary processes and development of planation surfaces in the Outer Western Carpathians
geography journal, but also one of Slovenia's oldest periodicals; it is the tenth oldest among the journals still being published today. Since 2000, two issues have appeared per year. In 2008, the journal issued its 80th anniversary volume. To date it has
Asie ; Crise ; Crise financière ; Crise économique ; Date 1973 ; Date 1998 ; Golfe persique ; Impact ; Migration internationale ; Russie
Crise pétrolière de 1973. Pays du golfe persique; Crise asiatique de 1998. Crise économique globale, commencée en 2008. Cycle migratoire et ses modifications régionales. Variante russe.
Aeolian activity ; Dating ; Eighteenth Century ; Hungary ; Palaeosol ; Sand ; Stream ; Twelfth Century
The studied sand territory is located on the left side of the Tisza River (Great Hungarian Plain), as a break off part of the Danube-Tisza Interfluve. By dating the aeolian sand formations and paleosoil of the Tiszakürt-Bogaras sections