Climate change in the Lake Valencia Basin, Venezuela, ~12600 yr BP to present

Holocene

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 609-619

  Curtis, Jason H ^a   Brenner, Mark ^a   Hodell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Holocene; Lake sediments; Lake Valencia; Late Pleistocene; Palaeoclimate; Stable isotopes; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ISOTOPE LABELING; PALEOECOLOGY; VENEZUELA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION;

LAKE VALENCIA; VENEZUELA;

GASTROPODA; VALENCIA;

EID: 0032825118     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968399669724431     Document Type: Article

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