Tepexpan Palaeoindian site, Basin of Mexico: multi-proxy evidence for environmental change during the late Pleistocene-late Holocene

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 19-20, 2009, Pages 2000-2016

  Lamb, Angela L ^a   Gonzalez, Silvia ^b   Huddart, David ^b   Metcalfe, Sarah E ^c   Vane, Christopher H ^a   Pike, Alistair W G ^d  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE BASIN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENES; HUMAN POPULATION; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LATE HOLOCENE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; ME-XICO; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; RADIOCARBON DATES; STABLE ISOTOPES; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TERRESTRIAL PLANTS; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

CATCHMENTS;

C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; HOMINID; PLEISTOCENE; PREHISTORIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; SKELETON; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM SERIES DATING; VOLCANISM;

LAKE TEXCOCO; MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 68349146514     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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