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Complex investigations in the lower Kama River basin yielded the first detailed lithogeochemical, paleopedological, and paleontological data on recent sediments constituting the Razdol’nyi and Rybnaya Sloboda reference sections. These data served as a basis for facies-genetic discrimination, subdivision, and correlation of defined units with the Pleistocene time scale using paleopedological and paleontological data. This allowed environmental changes to be reconstructed for the Middle Pleistocene to Holocene period and stratigraphy of recent sediments in the region in question to be substantiated using climatic rhythms.
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Original Russian Text © N.I. Glushankova, 2015, published in Litologiya i Poleznye Iskopaemye, 2015, No. 3, pp. 215–227.
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Glushankova, N.I. Structure, composition, and depositional environments of recent sediments in the lower Kama River basin. Lithol Miner Resour 50, 192–202 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0024490215030037
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