Combined marine proxy and pollen analyses reveal rapid Iberian vegetation response to North Atlantic millennial-scale climate oscillations

Quaternary Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 128-132

  Roucoux, Katherine H ^a   Shackleton, Nicholas J ^a   de Abreu, Lucia ^a   Schönfeld, Joachim ^b   Tzedakis, Polychronis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Land sea correlation; Marine isotope stage 3; Marine palynology; North Atlantic; Portuguese margin

Indexed keywords

LAND-SEA INTERACTION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; SEDIMENT CORE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035413185     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2001.2218     Document Type: Article

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