Late Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironments of Crimea: Pollen, soils, geomorphology, and geoarchaeology

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 473, Issue , 2011, Pages 133-164

  Cordova, Carlos E ^a   Gerasimenko, Natalia P ^b   Lehman, Paul H ^c   Kliukin, Alexander A ^d  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d TAURIDA NATIONAL V I VERNADSKY UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERGLACIAL; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; POLLEN; SEA LEVEL; SOIL PROFILE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CRIMEA; UKRAINE;

EID: 79960096103     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2473(09)     Document Type: Review

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