Deglaciation and Holocene climate change in the western Peruvian Andes

Quaternary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-96

  Weng, Chengyu ^a   Bush, Mark B ^a   Curtis, Jason H ^b   Kolata, Alan L ^c   Dillehay, Tom D ^d   Binford, Michael W ^b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Fire; Glacier; Holocene; Last glacial maximum; Paleoclimatology; Paleoecology; Pleistocene; Pollen analysis; Polylepis; South America; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; FIRE HISTORY; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; GLACIER; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

ALNUS; BETULACEAE; POLYLEPIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33745127395     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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