The environmental history of a climate-sensitive lake in the former 'White Highlands' of Central Kenya

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 494-501

  Verschuren, Dirk ^a   Tibby, John ^b   Leavitt, Peter R ^c   Roberts, C Neil ^d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SEDIMENT CORE;

KENYA;

ALGAE; CYPERUS PAPYRUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032718601     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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