A stable isotope study of fossil mammal remains from the Paglicci cave, southern Italy, 13 to 33 ka BP: Palaeoclimatological considerations

Chemical Geology

Volumn 141, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 211-223

  Huertas, Antonio Delgado ^a,b   Iacumin, Paola ^b,c   Longinelli, Antonio ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Biogenic apatite; Palaeoclimatology; Phosphate; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002480632     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2541(97)00066-1     Document Type: Article

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