Late Quaternary glacial-interglacial cycle of climatic and environmental change on Mount Kenya, Kenya

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 593-618

  Olago, D O ^a   Street Perrott, F A ^b   Perrott, R A ^b   Ivanovich, M ^c   Harkness, D D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Harwell Lab   (United Kingdom)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY;

KENYA;

EID: 0033208195     PISSN: 08995362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-5362(99)00117-7     Document Type: Article

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