Tropical rainforest vegetation, climate and sea level during the Pleistocene in Kerala, India

Quaternary International

Volumn 213, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 2-11

  Farooqui, Anjum ^a   Ray, J G ^b   Farooqui, S A ^c   Tiwari, R K ^d   Khan, Z A ^c  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^b ST BERCHMANS COLLEGE   (India)

^c Directorate of Geology and Mining   (India)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RAINFOREST; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

INDIA; KERALA;

DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 76149146009     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.09.024     Document Type: Article

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