A chronological framework for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula

Nature

Volumn 476, Issue 7361, 2011, Pages 446-449

  Penkman, Kirsty E H ^a   Preece, Richard C ^b   Bridgland, David R ^c   Keen, David H ^d   Meijer, Tom ^e   Parfitt, Simon A ^f,g   White, Tom S ^b   Collins, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; SERINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATA SET; DATING METHOD; DEEP SEA; GASTROPOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; INTERGLACIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MARINE RECORD; PROTEIN; STRATOTYPE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; INTERGLACIAL; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; QUATERNARY (PERIOD); RADIOMETRIC DATING; SNAIL; STRATIGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; FOSSILS; FRESH WATER; GASTROPODA; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PROTEINS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

BITHYNIA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 80052043167     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10305     Document Type: Article

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