A late Quaternary marine palynological record (oxygen isotope stages 1 to 7) for the humid tropics of northeastern Australia based on ODP Site 820

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-22

  Moss, Patrick T ^a   Kershaw, A Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate change; Human impact; Late Quaternary; Marine palynology; Rainforest history

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUMID TROPICS; MARINE RECORD; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34447103202     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.02.014     Document Type: Article

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