Identification of Saharan dust particles in Pleistocene dune sand- paleosol sequences of Fuerteventura (Canary Islands)

Automated static image analysis and newly introduced evaluation techniques were applied in this paper to identify Saharan dust material in the unique sand-paleosol sequence of Fuerteventura (Canary Islands). Measurements of ~50,000 individual mineral particles per samples provided huge amount of gra...

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Main Authors: György Varga, Cristopher-Bastian Roettig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2018-06-01
Series:Hungarian Geographical Bulletin
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Online Access:http://ojs3.mtak.hu/index.php/hungeobull/article/view/1091