Late Quaternary climate history of the Horton Plains, central Sri Lanka

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1525-1541

  Premathilake, Rathnasiri ^a   Risberg, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; MIXTURES; RAIN;

ORGANIC MATTERS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUATERNARY; SEMIARID REGION;

HORTON PLAINS; SRI LANKA;

EID: 0038757891     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00128-8     Document Type: Article

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