Middle Pleistocene cold stage climates in the Mediterranean: New evidence from the glacial record

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 50-56

  Hughes, P D ^a   Woodward, J C ^a   Gibbard, P L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glaciers; Greece; Mediterranean; Middle Pleistocene; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

GREECE; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TEMPERATURE;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GLACIATION; GLACIER; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845587334     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.10.019     Document Type: Article

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