Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica: Interpretations from marine diatoms

Antarctic Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 512-521

  Taylor, Fiona ^a,b   Leventer, Amy ^a  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica diatoms; Holocene; Last Glacial Maximum; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; GLACIAL HISTORY; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; PRYDZ BAY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; NITZSCHIA ALBA;

EID: 0346269337     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102003001639     Document Type: Article

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