Paleoclimatic implications of oxygen isotopic variation in late Pleistocene and Holocene tusks of Mammuthus primigenius from northern Eurasia

Quaternary International

Volumn 169-170, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 154-165

  Fox, David L ^a   Fisher, Daniel C ^b   Vartanyan, Sergey ^c   Tikhonov, Alexei N ^d   Mol, Dick ^e   Buigues, Bernard ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Wrangel Island State Reserve ^*  (Russian Federation)

^d ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e CERPOLEX/Mammuthus   (Netherlands)

^f CERPOLEX/Mammuthus   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; INTERSTADIAL; MAMMOTH; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

CHUKCHI; EURASIA; MAGADAN [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TAYMYR; TAYMYR PENINSULA; WRANGEL ISLAND;

MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 34347236560     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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