Millennial climatic instability during penultimate glacial period recorded in a south-western France speleothem

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 376, Issue , 2013, Pages 122-131

  Wainer, Karine ^a   Genty, Dominique ^a   Blamart, Dominique ^a   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^b   Quinif, Yves ^c   Plagnes, Valérie ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Climate instabilities; Penultimate glaciation; Speleothem; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EPISODIC EVENT; GROWTH RATE; INTERSTADIAL; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE;

EID: 84875899977     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.02.026     Document Type: Article

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