Late Quaternary palaeoenvironment of northern Guatemala: Evidence from deep drill cores and seismic stratigraphy of Lake Petén Itzá

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1220-1245

  Mueller, Andreas D ^a   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^b   Ariztegui, Daniel ^c   Brenner, Mark ^d   Hodell, David A ^e   Curtis, Jason H ^d   Escobar, Jaime ^d   Gilli, Adrian ^a   Grzesik, Dustin A ^d   Guilderson, Thomas P ^f   Kutterolf, Steffen ^g   Plötze, Michael ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Guatemala; Lake level changes; Lake sediments; Palaeoclimatology; Pet n Itz ; Seismic stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

GUATEMALA; LAKE LEVEL CHANGES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBONATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CORE DRILLING; DEEPWATER DRILLING; DRILLS; GYPSUM; LAKES; LITHOLOGY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DEEP DRILLING; DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HEINRICH EVENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; LAKE PETEN ITZA; PETEN;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 77955244122     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01144.x     Document Type: Article

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