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Reconstruction of the late Quaternary paleoenvironments of the Nussloch loess paleosol sequence—Comment to the paper published by Zech et al., Quaternary Research 78 (2012), 226–235

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Guido L.B. Wiesenberg  and
Martina Gocke
Guido L.B. Wiesenberg*
Affiliation:
Department for Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Martina Gocke
Affiliation:
Department of Agroecosystem Research, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
*
*Corresponding author. Fax: + 41 44 635 6848. E-mail address:guido.wiesenberg@geo.uzh.ch
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Keywords

DegradationRhizomicrobial inputn-Alkanes
Type
Letter to the Editor
Information
Quaternary Research , Volume 79 , Issue 2 , March 2013 , pp. 304 - 305
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University of Washington

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