Palynological signal of the Younger Dryas in the tropical Venezuelan Andes

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 23-24, 2010, Pages 3045-3056

  Rull, Valentí ^a   Stansell, Nathan D ^b   Montoya, Encarni ^a   Bezada, Maximiliano ^c   Abbott, Mark B ^d  

^a INSTITUT BOTÀNIC DE BARCELONA IBB CSIC ICUB   (Spain)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Universidad Pedagogica Experimental Libertador   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTERACEAE; CARIACO; COLOMBIANS; CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS; DEPTH MODELS; DISTRIBUTION BOUNDARY; GREENLAND; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE CORE; LAKE LEVELS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; MINIMUM VALUE; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; PALYNOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; POACEAE; POLLEN ASSEMBLAGE; RADIOCARBON DATES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEDIMENT CORE; TIME LAG; TROPICAL ANDES; VEGETATION ZONE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

VEGETATION;

DICOTYLEDON; ICE CORE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ANDES; COLOMBIA; VENEZUELA;

ALGAE; ASTERACEAE; HUPERZIA; ISOETES; POACEAE; PODOCARPUS; POLYLEPIS; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 77957334341     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.07.012     Document Type: Article

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