North American continental seasonality during the last millennium: High-resolution analysis of sagittal otoliths

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 138, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 271-303

  Patterson, William P ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Otoliths; Paleoclimatology; Precipitation; Seasonality; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALAEOCLIMATE; SAGITTAL OTOLITH; SEASONALITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

APLODINOTUS GRUMIENS; APLODINOTUS GRUNNIENS; LAURENTIA;

EID: 0032053810     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00137-5     Document Type: Article

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