Palaeoclimatic implications of isotopic data from modern and early Holocene shells of the freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata, from lakes in the Ethiopian Rift Valley

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-106

  Leng, Melanie J ^a   Lamb, Angela L ^b   Lamb, Henry F ^b   Telford, Richard J ^b  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon and oxygen isotopes, melanoides tuberculata, ethiopian Rift Valley, holocene

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; SHELL;

ETHIOPIA;

MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA;

EID: 0032988264     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008079219280     Document Type: Article

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