A 4000-year lacustrine record of environmental change in the southern Maya lowlands, Petén, Guatemala

Quaternary Research

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 183-190

  Rosenmeier, Michael F ^a   Hodell, David A ^a   Brenner, Mark ^a   Curtis, Jason H ^a   Guilderson, Thomas P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Deforestation; Guatemala; Holocene; Human disturbance; Lake sediments; Maya; Oxygen isotopes; Sediment chemistry

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY;

GUATEMALA; LAKE SALPETEN;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 0036525423     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2001.2305     Document Type: Article

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