Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, Pennsylvania

Quaternary Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 216-225

  Cong, Shaoguang ^a   Ashworth, Allan C ^a   Schwert, Donald P ^a   Totten, Stanley M ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HANOVER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; INSECTA;

BEETLE ASSEMBLAGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; QUATERNARY CLIMATE; TITUSVILLE INTERSTADE; WARM INTERVAL; WISCONSINAN;

USA, PENNSYLVANIA, TITUSVILLE;

EID: 0030456277     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1996.0022     Document Type: Article

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