Vegetation history and palaeoclimate of the past 30 kyr in Pakistan as inferred from the palynology of continental margin sediments off the Indus Delta

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 145, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 201-216

  Ansari, Murtaza H ^a   Vink, Annemiek ^b  

^a National Institute of Oceanography Pakistan   (Pakistan)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

late Quaternary; marine palynology; middle Holocene precipitation optimum; Pakistan; palaeoclimate; vegetation reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CORE ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PREBOREAL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION HISTORY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; INDUS DELTA; PAKISTAN; SIND; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34249276043     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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