An integrated terrestrial paleoenvironmental record from the Mid-Pleistocene transition, eastern North Island, New Zealand

Quaternary International

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 146-166

  Kennedy, Elizabeth M ^a   Alloway, Brent V ^a   Mildenhall, Dallas C ^a   Cochran, Ursula ^a   Pillans, Brad ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DIATOMITE; MARINE RECORD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALYNOLOGY; PALYNOMORPH; PLEISTOCENE; TEPHRA; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 40849119939     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

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