Sedimentation controls on the preservation and time resolution of climate-proxy records from shallow fluctuating lakes

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 821-837

  Verschuren, Dirk ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; LAKE LEVEL; PRESERVATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENTATION;

KENYA;

EID: 0033135659     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00065-1     Document Type: Article

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