Stable isotope (δ18O, δ13C, and δD) signatures of recent terrestrial communities from a low-latitude, oceanic setting: Endemic land snails, plants, rain, and carbonate sediments from the eastern Canary Islands

Chemical Geology

Volumn 249, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 377-392

  Yanes, Yurena ^a   Delgado, Antonio ^b   Castillo, Carolina ^c   Alonso, María R ^c   Ibáñez, Miguel ^c   De la Nuez, Julio ^c   Kowalewski, Michał ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

C3 C4 plants; Canary Islands; Eolian deposits; Quaternary; Stable isotopes; Terrestrial gastropods

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FOSSIL RECORD; GASTROPOD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANT; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

GASTROPODA; HELICIDAE; STYLOMMATOPHORA; THEBA;

EID: 41349102941     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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