Stable isotopes in Lake Geneva carbonate sediments and molluscs: Review and new data

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-210

  Filippi, Maria Letizia ^a   Moscariello, Andrea ^b   Hunziker, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbonate; Holocene; Lake; Late Glacial; Molluscs; Stable isotopes; Western Switzerland

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

CARBONATE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAKE SEDIMENT; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY;

SWITZERLAND, LAKE GENEVA;

EID: 0031466065     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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