Sta. Cruz Atizapán: A 22-ka lake level record and climatic implications for the late Holocene human occupation in the Upper Lerma Basin, Central Mexico

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 186, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 217-235

  Caballero, Margarita ^a   Ortega, Beatriz ^a   Valadez, Francisco ^a   Metcalfe, Sarah ^b   Macias, José Luis ^a   Sugiura, Yoko ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Diatoms; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; Magnetic properties; Mexico; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeolimnology; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY;

MEXICO;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FRAXINUS; TOLUCA;

EID: 0037107613     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00502-3     Document Type: Article

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