Out of tune: The dangers of aligning proxy archives

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue , 2012, Pages 38-49

  Blaauw, Maarten ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE DEPOSIT; ORBITAL TUNING; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; TEPHRA LAYERS; TIME-SCALES;

GEOLOGY;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

BIOCHRONOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOBOTANY; PEAT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEPHRA; TIMESCALE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857359998     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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