Palynological evidence for the astronomical origin of lignite-detritus sequence in the Middle Pleistocene Marathousa Member, Megalopolis, SW Greece

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 143-157

  Okuda, M ^a   Van Vugt, N ^b   Nakagawa, T ^c   Ikeya, M ^d   Hayashida, A ^e   Yasuda, Y ^c   Setoguchi, T ^f  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Climate change; EPR spectra; Greece; Middle Pleistocene; Orbital forcing; Palynology

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; LIGNITE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

GREECE;

EID: 0036328318     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00706-9     Document Type: Article

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