A record of fire, vegetation and climate through the last three glacial cycles from Lombok Ridge core G6-4, eastern Indian Ocean, Indonesia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 147, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 241-256

  Wang, Xuan ^a   Van Der Kaars, Sander ^a   Kershaw, Peter ^a   Bird, Michael ^b   Jansen, Fred ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Australia; Biomass burning; Indonesia; Isotope stratigraphy; Marine palynology; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

FIRE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; LOMBOK RIDGE;

EID: 0033560117     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00169-2     Document Type: Article

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