20 Aug 2018
| 20 Aug 2018
Field Trip B (27 September 2018): Quaternary environments of Giessen and its surrounding areas
Johanna Lomax
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Senckenbergstr. 1, 35390 Giessen, Germany
Raphael Steup
Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Senckenbergstr. 1, 35390 Giessen, Germany
Lyudmila Shumilovskikh
Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, University of Göttingen, Wilhelm-Weber-Str. 2a, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Christian Hoselmann
Hessisches Landesamt für Naturschutz, Umwelt und Geologie, Rheingaustr. 186, 65203 Wiesbaden, Germany
Daniela Sauer
Department of Physical Geography, University of Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 5, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Veit van Diedenhoven
Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Senckenbergstr. 1, 35390 Giessen, Germany
Markus Fuchs
Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Senckenbergstr. 1, 35390 Giessen, Germany
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