Record of Late Pleistocene (Oxygen Isotopic Stage 5) climate changes during episodes of karst development on the Northern coast of Crete: Sequence stratigraphic implications

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 277, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 246-264

  Caron, Vincent ^a   Bernier, Paul ^b   Mahieux, Geoffroy ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Géologie   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Late Pleistocene; Mixed carbonate siliciclastic sequence stratigraphy; Northern Crete; Oxygen Isotopic Stage 5; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeokarst

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; EROSION; MARINE SEDIMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOKARST; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; REGRESSION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 65649099378     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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