A multidisciplinary approach to reveal the Sicily Climate and Environment over the last 20 000 years

Central European Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 71-82

  Incarbona, Alessandro ^a   Zarcone, Giuseppe ^a   Agate, Mauro ^a   Bonomo, Sergio ^b   Di Stefano, Enrico ^a   Masini, Federico ^a   Russo, Fabio ^a   Sìneo, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Holocene; Last glacial maximum; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeoecology; Sicily

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952080255     PISSN: 18961517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10085-010-0005-8     Document Type: Article

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