Invertebrate fossils from cave sediments: A new proxy for pre-Quaternary paleoenvironments

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1825-1837

  Moldovan, O T ^a   Mihevc, A ^b   Miko, L ^c   Constantin, S ^a   Meleg, I N ^a   Petculescu, A ^a   Bosak P ^b,d  

^a EMIL RACOVI INSTITUTE OF SPELEOLOGY   (Romania)

^b KARST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAVE DEPOSIT; DATING METHOD; FOSSIL FUEL; INVERTEBRATE; KARST; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PRESERVATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; SAMPLING; SKELETAL REMAINS;

SLOVENIA;

CLADOCERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ORIBATIDA;

EID: 79960215280     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-1825-2011     Document Type: Article

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