Late holocene environmental reconstruction of St. Michiel saline lagoon, Curaçao (Dutch Antilles)

Radiocarbon

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 765-774

  Klosowska, Bogumila B ^a   Troelstra, Simon R ^a   Van Hinte, Jan E ^a   Beets, Dirk ^a   Van Der Borg, Klaas ^b   De Jong, Arie F M ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM SULFATE;

DEFORESTATION; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAGOON; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ARTICLE; CORAL; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HOLOCENE; LAGOON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALOGY; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; PRECIPITATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL EROSION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CURACAO; LESSER ANTILLES; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES;

EID: 4644275719     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200035803     Document Type: Article

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