First insights into mid-Holocene environmental change in central Vanuatu inferred from a terrestrial record from Emaotfer Swamp, Efaté Island

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 27-28, 2011, Pages 3908-3924

  Wirrmann, Denis ^a   Eagar, Stephen H ^b   Harper, Margaret A ^b   Leroy, Éric ^c   Sémah, Anne Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c CNRS Université Paris Est Créteil Val de Marne   (France)

Author keywords

Central Vanuatu; Diatom; ENSO variability; Mid Holocene; Ostracod; Pollen; Sedimentology; Volcanic events

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; ENSO VARIABILITY; MID-HOLOCENE; OSTRACOD; POLLEN; VANUATU; VOLCANIC EVENT;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEDIMENTOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

WETLANDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DECADAL VARIATION; DIATOM; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; MANGROVE; OSTRACOD; PALEOECOLOGY; PEAT; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSIT; TIMESCALE; UPLIFT; VEGETATION HISTORY;

VANUATU;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; OSTRACODA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 82355175160     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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