Mid-Wisconsin seasonal temperatures reconstructed from fossil beetle assemblages in eastern North America: Comparisons with other proxy records from the Northern Hemisphere

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 255-262

  Elias, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fossil beetles; North America; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WISCONSINAN;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033133921     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1417(199905)14:3<255::AID-JQS443>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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