Environmental variability during the Last Interglacial: A new high-resolution pollen record from Tenaghi Philippon, Greece

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 113-117

  Milner, Alice M ^a   Müller, Ulrich C ^b,c   Roucoux, Katherine H ^d   Collier, Richard E L ^d   Pross, Jörg ^b,c   Kalaitzidis, Stavros ^e,f   Christanis, Kimon ^f   Tzedakis, Polychronis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e Integral Resource Consulting   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Eemian Interglacial; Glacial inception; Mediterranean region; Pollen; Short term climate variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOREST COVER; ICE RAFTING; INTERGLACIAL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; PEATLAND; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SERRAI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA]; TENAGHI PHILIPPON;

EID: 84873931556     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2617     Document Type: Article

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