Stable carbon isotope record of middle to late Holocene climate changes from land snail shells at Hinds Cave, Texas

Quaternary International

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-60

  Goodfriend, Glenn A ^a   Ellis, G Lain ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Environmental Affairs Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SHELL; SNAIL;

HINDS CAVE; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033949653     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-6182(00)00008-2     Document Type: Article

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