The Lateglacial in the Rila Mountains (Bulgaria) revisited: The pollen record of Lake Ribno (2184m)

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Tonkov, Spassimir ^a   Possnert, Göran ^b   Bozilova, Elissaveta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bulgaria; Lake Ribno; Lateglacial; Pollen; Radiocarbon chronology; Rila Mountains

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIAL LAKE; ICE CORE; INTERSTADIAL; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS;

BULGARIA; CARPATHIANS; ITALY; LAZIO; PIRIN MOUNTAINS; RHODOPE MOUNTAINS; RILA MOUNTAINS; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME;

EID: 79959916906     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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