Integrated Late Quaternary chronostratigraphy for San Salvador Island, Bahamas: Patterns and trends of morphological change in the land snail Cerion

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 267, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 41-58

  Hearty, Paul J ^a   Schellenberg, Stephen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerator mass spectrometry 14C chronology; Amino acid racemization; Biostratigraphy; Cerion land snails; Reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography; San Salvador Islands; The Bahamas

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOLOGY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SNAIL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAHAMAS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; SAN SALVADOR [BAHAMAS];

CERION; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 50149091981     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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