Rapid environmental changes in southern Europe during the last glacial period

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6746, 1999, Pages 740-743

  Allen, Judy R M ^a   Brandt, Ute ^b   Brauer, Achim ^b,c   Hubberten, Hans Wolfgang ^d   Huntley, Brian ^a   Keller, Jörg ^e   Kraml, Michael ^e   Mackensen, Andreas ^d   Mingram, Jens ^b   Negendank, Jörg F W ^b   Nowaczyk, Norbert R ^b   Oberhänsli, Hedi ^b   Watts, William A ^f   Wulf, Sabine ^b   Zolitschka, Bernd ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPE; GREENLAND; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033584348     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23432     Document Type: Article

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