Late Pleistocene glaciers and climate in the Mediterranean

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 50, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 83-98

  Hughes, P D ^a   Woodward, J C ^a   Gibbard, P L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glaciation; Greece; Palaeoclimate; Pindus Mountains; Pleistocene; Tymphian; W rmian

Indexed keywords

GLACIER; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; PINDUS MOUNTAINS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33644539526     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.07.005     Document Type: Article

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