Molluscs as evidence for a late Pleistocene and early Holocene humid period in the southern coastal desert of Peru (14.5°S)

Quaternary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-47

  Mächtle, Bertil ^a   Unkel, Ingmar ^b   Eitel, Bernhard ^a   Kromer, Bernd ^c   Schiegl, Solveig ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GeoBiosphere Science Centre   (Sweden)

^c HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^d Abteilung Altere Urgeschichte und Quartarokologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Desert loess; Mollusc fauna; Palaeoclimatic change; Palaeoenvironment; Peruvian coastal desert; Pupoides; Scutalus

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DESERT; HOLOCENE; LOESS; MOLLUSC; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE;

ICA; PALPA; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

MOLLUSCA; POACEAE; PUPOIDES; SCUTALUS;

EID: 71049135746     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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