Petrographic and isotopic evidence for Holocene long-term climate change and shorter-term environmental shifts from a stalagmite from the Serra do Courel of northwestern Spain, and implications for climatic history across Europe and the Mediterranean

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 305, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 172-184

  Railsback, L Bruce ^a   Liang, Fuyuan ^b   Vidal Romaní, Juan Ramón ^c   Grandal d'Anglade, Aurora ^c   Vaqueiro Rodríguez, Marcos ^c   Santos Fidalgo, Luisa ^c   Fernández Mosquera, Daniel ^c   Cheng, Hai ^d,e   Edwards, R Lawrence ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocene; Isotopes; Palaeoclimate; Petrology; Spain; Stalagmite

Indexed keywords

ARAGONITE; CALCITE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISSOLUTION; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PETROGRAPHY; STALAGMITE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FRANCE; GREENLAND; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST; SPAIN;

EID: 79955481058     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.02.030     Document Type: Article

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