Late Quaternary vegetation and climate change in the Amazon Basin based on a 50,000 year pollen record from the Amazon fan, ODP site 932

Quaternary Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-38

  Haberle, Simon G ^a,c   Maslin, Mark A ^b  

^a Box 2072   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amazon Fan; Amazon River; Last glacial maximum; Oxygen isotopes; Palynology; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AMAZON FAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ALCHORNEA; CECROPIA; GORGONACEA; HEDYOSMUM; MELASTOMATACEAE; MORACEAE; MYRTACEAE; PODOCARPUS; URTICACEAE;

EID: 0032917532     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1998.2020     Document Type: Article

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