A detailed 31,000-year record of climate and vegetation change, from the isotope geochemistry of two New Zealand speleothems

Quaternary Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 167-178

  Hellstrom, John ^a   McCulloch, Malcolm ^a   Stone, John ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

New Zealand; Paleoclimate; Quaternary; Speleothem; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SPELEOTHEM; VEGETATION HISTORY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032463939     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1998.1991     Document Type: Article

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