Climate dynamics in the borderlands of the Aegean Sea during formation of sapropel S1 deduced from a marine pollen record

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 832-845

  Kotthoff, Ulrich ^a   Pross, Jörg ^a   Müller, Ulrich C ^a   Peyron, Odile ^b   Schmiedl, Gerhard ^c   Schulz, Hartmut ^d   Bordon, Amandine ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

CLIMATE DYNAMICS; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BORDER REGION; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; RECONSTRUCTION; REFORESTATION; SAPROPEL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 42749088028     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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