Annual rainfall and nitrogen-isotope correlation in macropod collagen: Application as a palaeoprecipitation indicator

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 153, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 279-285

  Gröcke, Darren R ^a   Bocherens, Hervé ^b   Mariotti, André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Australia; Collagen; Macropodidae; N 15 N 14; Palaeoclimatology

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY; PALAEOPRECIPITATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031424481     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00189-1     Document Type: Article

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