Late Glacial and Holocene environmental and climatic changes from a limnological transect through Colombia, northern South America

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-96

  Velez M I ^a   Hooghiemstra, H ^a   Metcalfe, S ^b   Wille, M ^c   Berrio J C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Colombia; Diatoms; Eastern Cordillera; Holocene; Intertropical Convergence Zone; Lowlands; Palaeoclimates; Pollen

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL HISTORY; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENTATION; SWAMP; WATER LEVEL;

CHOCO; COLOMBIA; LAKE EL CAIMITO; PACIFIC COAST [COLOMBIA]; PACIFIC COAST [SOUTH AMERICA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 33646080576     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.10.020     Document Type: Article

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