Dating methods and geomorphic evidence of palaeoenvironmental changes at the eastern margin of the South Peruvian coastal desert (14°30′S) before and during the Little Ice Age

Quaternary International

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-28

  Unkel, Ingmar ^a   Kadereit, Annette ^a   Mächtle, Bertil ^b   Eitel, Bernhard ^b   Kromer, Bernd ^a   Wagner, Günther ^a   Wacker, Lukas ^c  

^a HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARIDITY; COASTAL ZONE; DATING METHOD; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; ICE CORE; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; ICA; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

GASTROPODA; SCUTALUS;

EID: 36549025817     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.03.006     Document Type: Article

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