The Alleret maar (Massif Central, France): A new lacustrine sequence of the early Middle Pleistocene in western Europe

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 339, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 987-997

  Pastre, Jean François ^a   Gauthier, Agnès ^a   Nomade, Sébastien ^b   Orth, Paul ^a   Andrieu, Ana ^a   Goupille, Franck ^a   Guillou, Hervé ^b   Kunesch, Stéphane ^a   Scaillet, Stéphane ^b   Renne, Paul Randall ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diatoms; Early Middle Pleistocene; France; Lacustrine sedimentation; Massif Central; Palynology; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VEGETATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MASSIF CENTRAL; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 37049032173     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2007.09.019     Document Type: Article

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