Palynological record of Lake Nero in Russia

This collection prepared to IX Congress of INQUA containes 25 articles concerning general and regional problems of Pleistocene. The chronological scale of the Late Pliocene and Pleistocene, climatical cycles and methods of the absolute dating are considered. Some data obtained by means ef paleomagnetic, thermoluminescence and radiocarbon methods at several point sections (Likhvin, Rostov-Jarosiavsky, Priasovje, Ob-garm, Chagan, Pryobskoje Plateau, Lower Volga) are given