Onocerane attests to dry climatic events during the Quaternary in the tropics

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 289-297

  Jacob, Jérémy ^a,e   Disnar, Jean Robert ^a   Boussafir, Mohammed ^a   Ledru, Marie Pierre ^b   Albuquerque, Ana Luiza Spadano ^c   Sifeddine, Abdelfettah ^c   Turcq, Bruno ^d  

^a UMR 7327   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR FOSSILS;

AQUACULTURE; DATA REDUCTION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEDIMENTS;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

FOSSIL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LIPID; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 1442340232     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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