Millennial-scale climatic cycles in the Early Pliocene pollen record of Ptolemais, northern Greece

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 229, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 321-334

  Kloosterboer Van Hoeve, M L ^a   Steenbrink, J ^b   Visscher, H ^a   Brinkhuis, H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NEDERLANDSE AARDOLIE MAATSCHAPPIJ B V   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate; Greece; Millennial scale cycles; Palynology; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; PRECESSION; RHYTHMITE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; PTOLEMAIS BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN MACEDONIA;

ZANCLEA;

EID: 29144494552     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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