Bioapatite 87Sr/86Sr of the last woolly mammoths - Implications for the isolation of Wrangel Island

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 347-350

  Arppe, Laura ^a   Karhu, Juha A ^a   Vartanyan, Sergey L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HERZEN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-APATITE; HOLOCENES; ISOTOPE VALUES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MAMMOTH REMAINS; NEOPROTEROZOIC ROCKS; PLEISTOCENE; SIBERIA;

ANIMALS; ISOTOPES;

STRONTIUM;

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAMMOTH; MOVEMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

EURASIA; MAGADAN [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WRANGEL ISLAND;

ANIMALIA; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 69649098340     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25467A.1     Document Type: Article

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