Upper Pleistocene rocky shores and intertidal biotas at Playa La Palmita (Baja California Sur, Mexico)

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 216-225

  Libbey, Laura K ^a   Johnson, Markes E ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

bivalve populations; coralline red algae; encrusting biotas; Last interglacial epoch; oxygen isotope substage 5e

Indexed keywords

INTERTIDAL BIOTAS; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PALAEOECOLOGY; PALAEOTOPOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE (UPPER); ROCKY SHORES; SHORELINE BIOTA; UPPER PLEISTOCENE;

MEXICO, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, PLAYA LA PALMITA;

EID: 0030617786     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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