Isotopic evidence for climate change during the vandal minimum from ariopsis felis otoliths and mercenaria campechiensis shells, Southwest Florida, USA

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1081-1091

  Wang, Ting ^a   Surge, Donna ^a   Walker, Karen Jo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ariopsis felis; Calusa; Mercenaria campechiensis; oxygen and carbon isotopes; southwest Florida; Vandal Minimum

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BIVALVE; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; COOLING; DROUGHT; HOLOCENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; OTOLITH; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; PALEOCLIMATE; SHELL;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

FELIS; MERCENARIA; MERCENARIA CAMPECHIENSIS;

EID: 80053211223     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611400458     Document Type: Article

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