Reconstruction of the Late Miocene climate of Spain using rodent palaeocommunity successions: An application of end-member modelling

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 267-305

  Van Dam, Jan A ^a   Weltje, Gert Jan ^b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

End member modelling; Miocene; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeoecology; Rodentia; Spain

Indexed keywords

MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; RODENT;

SPAIN;

EID: 0033178493     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(99)00015-2     Document Type: Article

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