A 19.5kyr vegetation history from the central cederberg mountains, south africa: Palynological evidence from rock hyrax middens

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 309, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 253-270

  Quick, Lynne J ^a   Chase, Brian M ^b,c   Meadows, Michael E ^a   Scott, Louis ^d   Reimer, Paula J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cederberg mountains; Holocene; Hyrax midden; Last glacial interglacial transition; Mountain fynbos; Pollen analysis; South africa

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DOMINANCE; FYNBOS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEMIARID REGION; STABLE ISOTOPE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CEDERBERG; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

PROCAVIA CAPENSIS; PROCAVIIDAE;

EID: 80051694246     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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