Late Quaternary glacier advances and palaeolake highstands in the Bolivian Altiplano

Quaternary International

Volumn 38-39, Issue , 1997, Pages 49-59

  Clapperton, C M ^a   Clayton, J D ^a   Benn, D I ^a   Marden, C J ^a   Argollo, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; GLACIER ADVANCE; HIGHSTAND; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOLAKE; QUATERNARY (LATE); QUATERNARY(LATE);

BOLIVIA, ALTIPLANO;

EID: 0030680293     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1040-6182(96)00020-1     Document Type: Article

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