Last interglacial sea level changes in Mallorca island (Western Mediterranean). High precision U-series data from phreatic overgrowths on speleothems

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-21

  Tuccimei, Paola ^a   Gínes, Joaquín ^b   Delitala, Maria Cristina ^a   Ginés, Angel ^c   Gràcia, Francesc ^d   Fornós, Joan J ^b   Taddeucci, Adriano ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^c Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals   (Spain)

^d Grup Nord de Mallorca   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIOTECTONICS; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIATION; PHREATIC ZONE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPELEOTHEM; VADOSE ZONE;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33645797119     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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