Records of Late Pleistocene-Holocene climatic change in Mexico - A review

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 699-721

  Metcalfe, Sarah E ^a   O'Hara, Sarah L ^b   Caballero, Margarita ^c   Davies, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY;

MEXICO;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0034030064     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(99)00022-0     Document Type: Article

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