Oxygen isotopic composition of fruit carbonate in Lithospermeae and its potential for paleoclimate research in the Mediterranean

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 258-268

  Pustovoytov, Konstantin ^a   Riehl, Simone ^b   Hilger, Hartmut H ^c   Schumacher, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

13C; 18O; 14C; biogenic carbonate; Boraginaceae; Lithospermeae; Mediterranean; paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CARBONATE; DICOTYLEDON; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOSSIL; FRUIT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; OXYGEN; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SUMMER; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

BORAGINACEAE;

EID: 77952236438     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.11.015     Document Type: Article

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