Early Pleistocene climate changes in the central Mediterranean region as inferred from integrated pollen and planktonic foraminiferal stable isotope analyses

Quaternary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 264-274

  Joannin, Sébastien ^a   Quillévéré, Frédéric ^a   Suc, Jean Pierre ^a   Lécuyer, Christophe ^a,b   Martineau, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Central Mediterranean region; Climatic cycle; Crotone; Early Pleistocene; Pollen analysis; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CYCLE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; LIQUIDAMBAR; ZELKOVA;

EID: 33846921835     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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