Causal link between Quaternary paleoclimatic changes and volcanic islands evolution

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Quidelleur, Xavier ^a   Hildenbrand, A ^a   Samper, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDSLIDES; PORE PRESSURE; SEA LEVEL; TSUNAMIS;

GEODYNAMIC CONTEXTS; INTERGLACIAL TRANSITIONS; QUATERNARY PALEOCLIMATIC CHANGE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EROSION; GEOLOGICAL HAZARD; INTERGLACIAL; LANDSLIDE; MELTWATER; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TSUNAMI; VOLCANIC ISLAND;

EID: 40849139412     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031849     Document Type: Article

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