Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Last Glacial Maximum, inferred from insect fossils from a tephra buried soil at Tempest Lake, Seward Peninsula, Alaska

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 267, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 245-255

  Kuzmina, Svetlana ^a   Elias, Scott ^b   Matheus, Paul ^c   Storer, John E ^d   Sher, Andrei ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c YUKON COLLEGE   (Canada)

^d Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Canada)

^e SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alaska; Insect fossils; Last glacial maximum; Seward Peninsula

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEETLE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ASH;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; SEWARD PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; BYRRHIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPHORUS LINEATICOLLIS;

EID: 51449119848     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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