Oxygen isotope measurements of mammoth and reindeer skeletal remains: An archive of late Pleistocene environmental conditions in Eurasian Arctic

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 160, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 587-592

  Genoni, L ^a   Iacumin, P ^a   Nikolaev, V ^b   Gribchenko, Yu ^b   Longinelli, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic region; Bones; Eurasia; Isotope; Mammalia; Mammals; Oxygen; Paleoenvironment; Pleistocene; Russian Federation; Siberia

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0032456850     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00113-7     Document Type: Article

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