Articles | Volume 70, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-171-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-171-2021
Research article
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13 Jul 2021
Research article |  | 13 Jul 2021

Revisiting the subalpine Mesolithic site Ullafelsen in the Fotsch Valley, Stubai Alps, Austria – new insights into pedogenesis and landscape evolution from leaf-wax-derived n-alkanes, black carbon and radiocarbon dating

Michael Zech, Marcel Lerch, Marcel Bliedtner, Tobias Bromm, Fabian Seemann, Sönke Szidat, Gary Salazar, Roland Zech, Bruno Glaser, Jean Nicolas Haas, Dieter Schäfer, and Clemens Geitner

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