How long and how stable was the last interglacial?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 605-612

  Kukla, George ^a   McManus, Jerry F ^c   Rousseau, Denis Didier ^a,b   Chuine, Isabelle ^b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; INTERGLACIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; STABILITY;

FRANCE, (NORTH);

EID: 0030759335     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(96)00114-X     Document Type: Article

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