Constancy in the vegetation of the Amazon Basin during the late Pleistocene: Evidence from the organic matter composition of Amazon deep sea fan sediments

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 291-294

  Kastner, Thomas P ^a   Goni, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

13C; Amazon Basin; Amazon deep sea fan; Cutin acids; Late Pleistocene; Lignin; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

RAINFORESTS;

BIOMARKERS; CARBON; COMPOSITION; ISOTOPES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS;

VEGETATION;

BIOMARKER; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SUBMARINE FAN; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION HISTORY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0038302821     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0291:CITVOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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