Synthetic reconstructions of southern African environments during the Last Glacial Maximum (21-18 kyr) and the Holocene Altithermal (8-6 kyr)

Quaternary International

Volumn 57-58, Issue , 1999, Pages 207-214

  Partridge, T C ^a   Scott, L ^b   Hamilton, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PREDICTION;

AFRICA;

EID: 0033379859     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-6182(98)00061-5     Document Type: Article

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