Oxygen isotope evidence of Little Ice Age aridity on the Caribbean slope of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic

Quaternary Research

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 461-470

  Lane, Chad S ^a   Horn, Sally P ^a   Orvis, Kenneth H ^a   Thomason, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Dominican Republic; Hispaniola; Intertropical Convergence Zone; Lake sediment; Little Ice Age; Ostracod; Oxygen isotope

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; HISPANIOLA; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAKE SEDIMENT; LITTLE ICE AGE; OSTRACOD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE;

ANIMALS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; ISOTOPES; LAKES; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARIDITY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CORDILLERA CENTRAL [DOMINICAN REPUBLIC]; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC;

OSTRACODA;

EID: 79955479281     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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