Long Plio-Pleistocene terrestrial record of climate change and mammal turnover in Southern Spain

Quaternary Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 411-418

  Agustí, Jordi ^a   Oms, Oriol ^b   Remacha, Eduard ^b  

^a Escola Industrial 23   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cyclostratigraphy; Mammal turnover; Pleistocene; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; TURNOVER;

GUADIX-BAZA BASIN; SPAIN;

EQUUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035526643     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2001.2269     Document Type: Article

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