Late Quaternary environmental changes in Misiones, subtropical NE Argentina, deduced from multi-proxy geochemical analyses in a palaeosol-sediment sequence

Quaternary International

Volumn 196, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 121-136

  Zech, Michael ^a   Zech, Roland ^b   Morrás, Héctor ^c   Moretti, Lucas ^c   Glaser, Bruno ^a   Zech, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PROVENANCE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARGENTINA; MISIONES [ARGENTINA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

POACEAE;

EID: 59849091167     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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