Climate information from C, N and O stable isotope analyses of mammoth bones from northern Siberia

Quaternary International

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 206-212

  Iacumin, P ^a   Di Matteo, A ^a   Nikolaev, V ^b   Kuznetsova, T V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; FOSSIL RECORD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAMMOTH; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLEISTOCENE; RAINFALL; STABLE ISOTOPE;

SIBERIA;

BISON; EQUIDAE;

EID: 75249088417     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.10.009     Document Type: Article

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