Historical climatic extremes as indicators for typical scenarios of Holocene climatic periods in the Pampean plain

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 283, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 107-119

  Iriondo, Martin ^a   Brunetto, Ernesto ^b   Kröhling, Daniela ^c  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b CIC y TTP CONICET   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Climatic extremes; Holocene Climatic Optimum; Late Holocene dry period; Pampean region; Quaternary Geology; South America

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; DEFLATION; DUNE; EXTREME EVENT; FROST; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARGENTINA; PAMPAS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70449127052     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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