Vegetation history and sea level variations during the last 13,500 years inferred from a pollen record at Chilika Lake, Orissa, India

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 335-344

  Khandelwal, Asha ^a   Mohanti, Manmohan ^b   García Rodríguez, Felipe ^c   Scharf, Burkhard W ^d,e  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^b UTKAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Facultad de Ciencias   (Uruguay)

^d UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig Halle ^*  (Germany)

^e HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chilika Lake; India; Lagoon; Mangroves; Palynostratigraphy; Sea level variations

Indexed keywords

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 44849121075     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-007-0127-5     Document Type: Article

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