Younger Dryas to mid-Holocene environmental history of the lowlands of NW Transylvania, Romania

Quaternary Research

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 364-378

  Feurdean, Angelica ^a   Mosbrugger, Volker ^b   Onac, Bogdan P ^c,d   Polyak, Victor ^e   Veres, Daniel ^d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AMS 14C; Holocene; Lowlands; Pollen; Total carbon; Transylvania; U Th TIMS; Vegetation changes; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY; WOODLAND; YOUNGER DRYAS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRANSYLVANIA;

ALNUS; BETULA; CARPINUS; CORYLUS; FRAXINUS; GASTROPODA; MALVACEAE; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; QUERCUS; SALIX; TILIA; ULMUS;

EID: 35348829121     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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