Investigating the Mid-Brunhes event in the Spanish terrestrial sequence

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1051-1054

  Blain, Hugues Alexandre ^a,b   Cuenca Bescós, Gloria ^c   Lozano Fernández, Iván ^a   López García, Juan Manuel ^a   Ollé, Andreu ^a   Rosell, Jordi ^a   Rodríguez, Jesus ^d  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE TRENDS; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; INTERGLACIAL PERIODS; INTERGLACIALS; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

WATER RESOURCES;

BIOCHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HERPETOFAUNA; INTERGLACIAL; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 84868697089     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33427.1     Document Type: Article

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