Late Pleistocene and Holocene mid-latitude palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction: An approach based on the isotopic record from a travertine formation in the Guadix-Baza basin, Spain

Geological Magazine

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 602-625

  Prado Pérez, Antonio J ^a,b   Huertas, Antonio Delgado ^c   Crespo, M T ^a   Sánchez, A Martín ^d   Pérez Del Villar, Luís ^a  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b Centro de Estudios y Experimentacion de Obras Publicas   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Betic Cordillera; Holocene; palaeoclimatology; Pleistocene; Spain; travertine

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ISOTOPES;

BETIC CORDILLERA; HOLOCENES; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SPAIN; TRAVERTINE;

LIMESTONE;

HOLOCENE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; TRAVERTINE;

ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; GAUDIX-BAZA BASIN; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; IBERIAN PENINSULA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 84879349277     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756812000726     Document Type: Article

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