Quantitative reconstruction of Holocene precipitation changes in southern Patagonia

Quaternary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 410-420

  Tonello, Marcela Sandra ^a   Mancini, Maria Virginia ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Annual precipitation; Forest steppe ecotone; Holocene; Patagonia; Pollen climate calibration model; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; FOREST-STEPPE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOLOCENE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TRANSFER FUNCTION;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 70349970732     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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