Southern Westerlies during the Holocene deduced from geomorphological and pedological studies in the Norte Chico, Northern Chile (27- 33°s)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 107-119

  Veit, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOG; GLACIAL INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIAL/INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; WIND CIRCULATION;

CHILE, NORTE CHICO;

EID: 0030176739     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00118-2     Document Type: Article

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