A synthetic pollen record of the eastern Mediterranean sapropels of the last 1 Ma: Implications for the time-scale and formation of sapropels

Marine Geology

Volumn 153, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 221-237

  Rossignol Strick, Martine ^a   Paterne, Martine ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Climate; Marine record; Mediterranean Sea; Milankovitch; Oxygen isotope; Pollen; Quaternary; Sapropels

Indexed keywords

PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SAPROPEL;

GREECE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032901583     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00080-2     Document Type: Article

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