Last Interglacial palaeovegetation, palaeoenvironments and chronology: a new record from Lago Grande di Monticchio, southern Italy

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 15-16, 2009, Pages 1521-1538

  Allen, Judy R M ^a   Huntley, Brian ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; FOREST COVER; GLACIAL STAGES; HIGH PRECISION; HOLOCENE CHANGES; LAGO GRANDE DI MONTICCHIO; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MEAN TEMPERATURE; NORDIC SEAS; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PALAEOVEGETATION; PARALLEL COMPLEXITY; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ROBUST ESTIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SOUTHERN ITALY; STEPPE VEGETATION; TRANSITION PERIOD; YOUNGER DRYAS; ZONAL MEANS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RESTORATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

VEGETATION;

CHRONOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST COVER; LAST INTERGLACIAL; NEW RECORD; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STEPPE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BASILICATA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAGO GRANDE DI MONTICCHIO; POTENZA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349271857     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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