Dating Late Glacial abrupt climate changes in the 14,570 yr long continuous varve record of Lake Van, Turkey

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 107-118

  Landmann, Günter ^a   Reimer, Andreas ^a   Lemcke, Gerry ^b   Kempe, Stephan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; LATE GLACIAL; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; VARVE RECORD;

TURKEY, ANATOLIA, LAKE VAN;

EID: 0030480066     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00101-8     Document Type: Article

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