Early Holocene climatic instability in Japan: organic geochemical evidence in sediment cores from Lake Biwa, Lake Kizaki and the Japan Sea

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-83

  Meyers, Philip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALAEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENT CORE;

JAPAN; JAPAN SEA;

EID: 0031720112     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0743-9547(97)00045-7     Document Type: Article

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