Reconciliation of vegetation and climatic interpretations of pollen profiles and other regional records from the last 60 thousand years in the Savanna Biome of Southern Africa

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 257, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 198-206

  Scott, L ^a   Holmgren, K ^b   Partridge, T C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate change; Lake sediments; Pollen; Speleothem; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; SAVANNA; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE; VEGETATION COVER;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; GAUTENG; LIMPOPO; LOBATSE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TSWAING CRATER; WONDERKRATER;

EID: 36849044710     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.10.018     Document Type: Article

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