Tepexpan revisited: A multiple proxy of local environmental changes in relation to human occupation from a paleolake shore section in Central Mexico

Geomorphology

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 309-322

  Sedov, Sergey ^a   Lozano García, Socorro ^a   Solleiro Rebolledo, Elizabeth ^a   McClung de Tapia, Emily ^a   Ortega Guerrero, Beatriz ^a   Sosa Nájera, Susana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Central Mexico; Human landscape interaction; Lacustrine sediments; Paleoenvironments; Paleosols

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENTATION;

MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TEOTIHUACAN; TEPEXPAN; VALLEY OF MEXICO;

EID: 77956294819     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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