Lower latitudes loess
Subtitle: dust transport past and present
By: guest editors, Ludwig Zöller, Dominik Faust
Series: Quaternary international -- v. 196
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Loess; Congresses; Latitude; Environmental archaeology; Dust; Soil science in archaeology
Notes: Papers originally presented at an international workshop held on the island of Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, Mar. 6-10, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Lower latitudes loess-Dust transport past and present  -- L. Zöller and D. Faust; title: Migration and trans-Atlantic flight of locusts  -- M.W. Lorenz; title: Geochemical evidence for African dust and volcanic ash inputs to terra rossa soils on carbonate reef terraces, northern Jamaica, West Indies  -- D.R. Muhs and J.R. Budahn; title: Characterisation of two fluvio-lacustrine loessoid deposits on the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands  -- I. Menéndez, L. Cabrera, I. Sánchez-Pérez, J. Mangas and I. Alonso; title: Geomorphological investigations of sediment traps on Lanzoarote (Canary Islands) as a key for the interpretation of a palaeoclimate archive off NW Africa  -- H. von Suchodoletz, D. Faust and L. Zöller; title: Nature and age of Late Quaternary basin fill deposits in the Basin of Persepolis/Southern Iran  -- M. Kehl, M. Frechen and A. Skowronek; title: A sequence of fluvial and aeolian deposits (desert loess) and palaeosoils covering the last 60 ka in the Opuwo basin (Kaokoland/Kunene Region, Namibia) based on luminescence dating  -- E. Brunotte, B. Maurer, P. Fischer, J. Lomax and H. Sander; title: Stratigraphy, and spatial and temporal paleoclimatic trends in Southeastern/Eastern European loess-paleosol sequences  -- B. Buggle, U. Hambach, B. Glaser, N. Gerasimenko, S. Marković, I. Glaser and L. Zöller; title: Late Quaternary palaeosol records from subtropical (38°S) to tropical (16°S) South America and palaeoclimatic implications  -- W. Zech, M. Zech, R. Zech, N. Peinemann, H.J.M. Morrás, L. Moretti, N. Ogle, R.M. Kalim, M. Fuchs, P. Schad and B. Glaser; title: Late Quaternary environmental changes in Misiones, subtropical NE Argentina, deduced from multi-proxy geochemical analyses in a palaeosol-sediment sequence  -- M. Zech, R. Zech, H. Morrás, L. Moretti, B. Glaser and W. Zech; title: Genesis of subtropical soils with stony horizons in NE Argentina : Autochthony and polygenesis -- H. Morrás, L. Moretti, G. Píccolo and W. Zech.