A seasonally 'dry' interglacial climate in eastern England during the early Middle Pleistocene: Palaeopedological and stable isotopic evidence from Pakefield, UK

Boreas

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 255-265

  Candy, Ian ^a   Rose, James ^a   Lee, Jonathan ^a  

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; GEOCHEMISTRY; INTERGLACIAL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; PEDOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; PAKEFIELD; SUFFOLK; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746836893     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2006.tb01155.x     Document Type: Article

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