Climate forcings and their influence on Alpine history as reconstructed through the application of synchrotron-based X-ray microfluorescence on layered stalagmites

Archaeometry

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 209-219

  Frisia, S ^a   Borsato, A ^a   Susini, J ^b   Somogyi, A ^b  

^a MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Alpine iceman; Palaeoclimate; Synchrotron X ray microfluorescence

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ALPS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

LAMIINAE;

EID: 22144475074     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2005.00197.x     Document Type: Article

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