Malacological insights into the marine ecology and changing climate of the late Pleistocene - Early Holocene Queen Charlotte Islands archipelago, western Canada, and implications for early peoples

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 626-661

  Hetherington, Renée ^a,b   Reid, Robert G B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE; SALINE WATER; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS;

DILUTION;

OCEAN HABITATS;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY;

CANADA;

BIVALVIA; CLINOCARDIUM CALIFORNIENSE; CLINOCARDIUM NUTTALLII; HIATELLA; HIATELLA PHOLADIS; INVERTEBRATA; IRUS; MACOMA; MACOMA IRUS; MACOMA NASUTA; MOLLUSCA; MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS TAYLORI; MYA; MYA TRUNCATA; MYTILIMERIA; MYTILUS TROSSULUS; PROTOTHACA STAMINEA; PROTOTHACA TENERRIMA; SAXIDOMUS GIGANTEUS; SERRIPES GROENLANDICUS; TELLINA; TELLINA NUCULOIDES;

EID: 0038606154     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z03-024     Document Type: Article

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