British late glacial and Holocene climatic history reconstructed from land snail assemblages

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 651-654

  Rousseau, Denis Didier ^a,b   Preece, Richard ^c   Limondin Lozouet, Nicole ^d  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLLUSCS;

COOLING TRENDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; ICE CORE; LAND SNAILS; NORTH ATLANTIC; TIBETANS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

HOLOCENE; MOLLUSC; PALEOCLIMATE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LATE GLACIAL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SNAIL; WARMING; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDON; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84875000185     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0651:BLGAHC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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