Coastal paleo-environment and sea-level change at Macassa Bay, southern Mozambique, since c 6600 cal BP

Quaternary International

Volumn 260, Issue , 2012, Pages 153-163

  Norström, Elin ^a   Risberg, Jan ^a   Gröndahl, Helene ^a   Holmgren, Karin ^a   Snowball, Ian ^b   Mugabe, João Alberto ^c   Sitoe, Sandra Raúl ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c University of Eduardo Mondlane   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CARBON ISOTOPE; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DATA SET; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

INHAMBANE; MACASSA BAY; MOZAMBIQUE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84860238024     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.11.032     Document Type: Article

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