Middle Pleistocene climate and habitat change at Zhoukoudian, China, from the carbon and oxygen isotopic record from herbivore tooth enamel

Quaternary Research

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 329-338

  Gaboardi, Mabry ^a   Deng, Tao ^b   Wang, Yang ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Homo erectus; Oxygen isotopes; Paleoecology; Paleomonsoon; Pleistocene; Zhoukoudian

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; ENAMEL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; TOOTH;

ASIA; BEIJING; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD; ZHOUKOUDIAN;

CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; CERVUS NIPPON; DICERORHINUS; EQUUS; HOMO ERECTUS; MAMMALIA; MEGALOCEROS; SUS;

EID: 17544371046     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.02.006     Document Type: Article

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