Last glacial fire regime variability in western France inferred from microcharcoal preserved in core MD04-2845, Bay of Biscay

Quaternary Research

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 385-396

  Daniau, Anne Laure ^a   Goñi, Maria Fernanda Sánchez ^a   Duprat, Josette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; Charcoal; Dansgaard Oeschger events; France; Heinrich events; Marine sequence

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; HEINRICH EVENT; INTERSTADIAL; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 63549124150     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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