Stable isotope stratigraphy of a late last interglacial speleothem from Rana, northern Norway

Quaternary Research

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 155-164

  Linge, Henriette ^a   Lauritzen, Stein Erik ^a   Lundberg, Joyce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Last interglaciation; Norway; Speleothems; Stable isotopes; TIMS

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST INTERGLACIAL; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

NORWAY; RANA;

EID: 0035470776     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2001.2254     Document Type: Article

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