Late-glacial climate in the Maritimes Region, Canada, reconstructed from mutual climatic range analysis of fossil Coleoptera

Boreas

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-88

  Miller, Randall F ^a   Elias, Scott A ^b  

^a NEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

CANADA;

CHIRONOMIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 0033999999     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2000.tb01202.x     Document Type: Article

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