Authors: Slobodan B. Marković, Thomas Stevens, George Kukla, Ulrich Hambach, Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons, Phil Gibbard, Björn Buggle, Michael Zech, Zhengtang Guo, Qingzhen Hao, Haibin Wu, Ken O. 'Hara Dhand, Ian Smalley, Gábor Újvári, Pál Sümegi, Alida Timar-Gabor, Daniel Veres, Frank Sirocko, Djordjije A. Vasiljević, Zdzisław Jary, Anderss Svensson, Vidojko Jović, Frank Lehmkuhl, János Kovács, Zorica Svirčev
Venue: Earth-Science Reviews
Type: Publication
Abstract: The Danube River drainage basin is the second largest river catchment in Europe and contains a significant and extensive region of thick loess deposits that preserve a record of a wide variety of recent and past environments. Indeed, the Danube River and tributaries may themselves be responsible for the transportation of large volumes of silt that ultimately drive loess formation in the middle and lower reaches of this large catchment. However, this vast loess province lacks a unified stratigraphic scheme. European loess research started in the...
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Topics: 
Paleontology
Physical geography
Geomorphology
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