Mid- and late-Holocene sedimentary process and palaeovegetation changes near the mouth of the Amazon River

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 359-370

  Guimarães, José Tasso Felix ^a   Cohen, Marcelo Cancela Lisboa ^a   Pessenda, Luiz Carlos Ruiz ^b   França, Marlon Carlos ^a   Smith, Clarisse Beltrão ^a   Nogueira, Afonso César Rodrigues ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA)   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; C and N isotopes; climate changes; facies analysis; Holocene; palynology

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; FACIES; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HOLOCENE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MANGROVE; MUDFLAT; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOBOTANY; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SPORE; SUCCESSION;

AMAZON RIVER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84863152290     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611423693     Document Type: Article

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