Formal Quaternary stratigraphy-What do we expect and need?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 23-24, 2006, Pages 3458-3462

  Shackleton, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ESTIMATION; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTS;

BOUNDARY STRATOTYPES; MARINE SEDIMENTS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY; QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; QUATERNARY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRATOTYPE; TIME SERIES;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 33846826970     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.11.008     Document Type: Article

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