Millennial- to centennial-scale palaeoclimatic variations during Termination I and the Holocene in the central Mediterranean Sea

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 40, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 201-217

  Sbaffi, Laura ^a,c   Wezel, Forese Carlo ^a   Curzi, Giuseppe ^a   Zoppi, Ugo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Holocene; Termination I; Tyrrhenian Sea

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CORE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER;

EID: 0347622669     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(03)00111-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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