Paleoclimatic changes during the Late Pleistocene - Holocene in Laguna Babícora, near the Chihuahuan Desert, México

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1168-1179

  Ortega Ramírez, José R ^a   Valiente Banuet, Alfonso ^b   Urrutia Fucugauchi, Jalme ^a   Mortera Gutiérrez, Carlos A ^a   Alvarado Valdez, Guillermo ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY;

MEXICO;

EID: 0032467538     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e98-060     Document Type: Article

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