What, if Anything, is Quaternary?

Episodes

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 125-126

  Van Couvering, John A ^a   Aubry, Marie Pierre ^b   Berggren, William A ^c   Gradstein, Felix M ^d   Hilgen, Frits J ^e   Kent, Dennis V ^b   Lourens, Lucas J ^e   McGowran, Brian ^f  

^a The Micropaleontology Project   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LITERATURE REVIEW; LITHOLOGY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; RESEARCH WORK;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349761461     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2009/v32i2/005     Document Type: Review

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