The palaeoenvironment of Carihuela Cave (Granada, Spain): A reconstruction on the basis of palynological investigations of cave sediments

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 99, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 317-340

  Carrión, José S ^a   Munuera, Manuel ^a   Navarro, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Caves; Palaeoecology; Palynology; Spain; Upper Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; POLLEN ANALYSIS; VEGETATION CHANGE;

ANDALUCIA; CARIHUELA CAVE; GRANADA; SPAIN;

OLEA; PINUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 0032033022     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(97)00040-7     Document Type: Article

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