Lessons from the mud, lessons from the Maya: Paleoecological records of the Tierra Blanca Joven eruption

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 375, Issue , 2004, Pages 237-244

  Dull, Robert A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazards; Ilopango; Paleoecology; Volcanic eruption

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CULTIVATION; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); HAZARDS; LAKES; LAND USE; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ILOPANGO; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; PALEOECOLOGY; SECONDARY FOREST SUCCESSION; STRATIGRAPHIC MARKERS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

BIOMANIPULATION; BIOMARKER; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

PAZ RIVER;

EID: 79956654174     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2375-2.237     Document Type: Article

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