Dense-media separation as a more efficient pollen extraction method for use with organic sediment/deposit samples: Comparison with the conventional method

Boreas

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-24

  Nakagawa, Takeshi ^a   Brugiapaglia, Elisabetta ^b   Digerfeldt, Gunnar ^c   Reille, Maurice ^a   De Beaulieu, Jacques Louis ^a   Yasuda, Yoshinori ^d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC SEDIMENT; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN EXTRACTION; SEPARATION METHOD;

EID: 0031814661     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1998.tb00864.x     Document Type: Article

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