Astronomical tuning of long pollen records reveals the dynamic history of montane biomes and lake levels in the tropical high Andes during the Quaternary

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages 59-72

  Torres, Vladimir ^a,d   Hooghiemstra, Henry ^a   Lourens, Lucas ^b   Tzedakis, P Chronis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biome evolution; Biostratigraphy; Colombia; Cyclostratigraphy; Land sea correlation; Long continental pollen record; No analogue vegetation; Orbital tuning; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

BIOME EVOLUTION; COLOMBIA; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; LONG CONTINENTAL POLLEN RECORD; ORBITAL TUNING; PLEISTOCENE;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FISSION REACTIONS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; SILICATE MINERALS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

FORESTRY;

ACCUMULATION; BENTHOS; BIOME; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; DECIDUOUS TREE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; PRECESSION; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CLIMATES; COLOMBIA; CORRELATION; FISSION PRODUCTS; FORESTRY; LAKES; PLANTS; POLLEN; SILICATES; WETLANDS;

ANDES; BOGOTA; COLOMBIA;

ALNUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 84872545406     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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