Lateglacial-Middle Holocene stable isotope records in two coeval stalagmites from the Bihor Mountains, NW Romania

Geological Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 185-194

  Tǎmaş, Tudor ^a   Onac, Bogdan P ^a   Bojar, Ana Voica ^b  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Lateglacial Middle Holocene; NW Romania; Stable isotopes; Stalagmites; Uranium thorium TIMS dating

Indexed keywords

PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; STALAGMITE;

BIHOR; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 22744452933     PISSN: 16417291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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