Isotopic ecology of the modern land snail Cerion, San Salvador, Bahamas: Preliminary advances toward establishing a low-latitude island paleoenvironmental proxy

Palaios

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 174-187

  Baldini, Lisa M ^a   Walker, Sally E ^b   Railsback, L Bruce ^b   Baldini, James U L ^c   Crowe, Doug E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; DATA SET; ONTOGENY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHELL; SNAIL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAHAMAS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; SAN SALVADOR [BAHAMAS];

CERION; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 34548274002     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2005.p05.091r     Document Type: Article

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