Palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate of the Middle Miocene lake in the Steinheim basin, SW Germany: A reconstruction from C, O, and Sr isotopes of fossil remains

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 241, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 457-491

  Tutken T ^a,b   Vennemann, T W ^b   Janz, H ^c   Heizmann, E P J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c Rappenberghalde 82   (Germany)

^d STAATLICHES MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastropods; Mammal teeth; Ostracods; Oxygen isotopes; Palaeoclimate; Strontium isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DRINKING WATER; FOSSIL; FRESHWATER; GASTROPOD; HOME RANGE; LAKE EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; MIGRATION; MIOCENE; OSTRACOD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SKELETAL REMAINS; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TOOTH;

BAVARIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; STEINHEIM BASIN;

CERVIDAE; EQUIDAE; GASTROPODA; GYRAULUS; ILYOCYPRIS; MAMMALIA; OCHOTONA PRINCEPS; OSTRACODA; PROLAGUS; RHINOCEROTIDAE; SUIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33750438473     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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