El Nino variability in the coastal desert of southern Peru during the mid-Holocene

Quaternary Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 171-179

  Fontugne, Michel ^a   Usselmann, Pierre ^b   Lavallée, Danièle ^c   Julien, Michèle ^c   Hatté, Christine ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b University of Nice UMR 6012 ESPACE   (France)

^c Asociated to Laboratoire Archéologie des Amériques   (France)

Author keywords

C dating; El Nino; Mid Holocene; Southern Peru

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; DESERT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

PERU;

EID: 0033397754     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1999.2059     Document Type: Article

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