Climate variability in the Spanish Pyrenees during the last 30,000 yr revealed by the El Portalet sequence

Quaternary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-52

  Gonzalez Samperiz P ^a   Valero Garces B L ^a   Moreno, A ^a   Jalut, G ^b   Garcia Ruiz J M ^a   Marti Bono C ^a   Delgado Huertas, A ^c   Navas, A ^d   Otto, T ^b   Dedoubat, J J ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abrupt climate changes; Central western Spanish Pyrenees; Glacial readvance; Last deglaciation; Palynology; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST DEGLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 33745150044     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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