Excursions to C4 vegetation recorded in the upper pleistocene loess of surduk (Northern Serbia): An organic isotope geochemistry study

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1001-1014

  Hatte C ^a   Gauthier, C ^a   Rousseau, D D ^b,c   Antoine, P ^d   Fuchs, M ^e   Lagroix, F ^f   Markovic S B ^g   Moine, O ^d   Sima, A ^b  

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

^b CNRS   (France)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LOESS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BALKANS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SERBIA;

EID: 84877984104     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-1001-2013     Document Type: Article

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