On the late Pleistocene-Holocene sapropel record of climatic and oceanographic variability in the Eastern Mediterranean

Paleoceanography

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 78-94

  Calvert, S E ^a   Fontugne, M R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SAPROPEL;

(EAST); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0035060580     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999PA000488     Document Type: Article

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