Scale and structure of time-averaging (age mixing) in terrestrial gastropod assemblages from Quaternary eolian deposits of the eastern Canary Islands

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 283-299

  Yanes, Yurena ^a   Kowalewski, Michał ^a   Ortiz, José Eugenio ^b   Castillo, Carolina ^c   de Torres, Trinidad ^b   de la Nuez, Julio ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dpto de Automatic Ingenieria Electronica e Informatics Industrial DISAM   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amino acid epimerization; Canary Islands; Land snails; Quaternary; Time averaging

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GASTROPOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOSOL; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SHELL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; THEBA; THEBA ARINAGAE;

EID: 34447117583     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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