Paleoenvironmental changes and glacial stades of the last 50,000 years in the Cordillera Central, Colombia

Quaternary Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-18

  Thouret, Jean Claude ^a,d   Van Der Hammen, Thomas ^b,e   Salomons, Barry ^b,e   Juvigné, Etienne ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^e Tropenbos Araracuara   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT;

COLOMBIA, CORDILLERA CENTRAL, RUIZ-TOLIMA MASSIF;

EID: 0030429495     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1996.0039     Document Type: Article

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