The anatomy of Last Glacial Maximum climate variations in south Westland, New Zealand, derived from pollen records

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 215-229

  Vandergoes, Marcus J ^a,c   Newnham, Rewi M ^b   Denton, George H ^c   Blaauw, Maarten ^d   Barrell, David J A ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

14C dating; Chronostratigraphy; Climate events; Kawakawa Oruanui tephra; Last Glacial Maximum (LGM); New Zealand; Paleoclimate; Pollen records; Southwest Pacific

Indexed keywords

14C DATING; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE EVENT; KAWAKAWA/ORUANUI TEPHRA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NEW ZEALAND; PALEOCLIMATES; POLLEN RECORDS; SOUTHWEST PACIFIC;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRASS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; RADIOCARBON DATING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODLAND;

NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); SOUTH ISLAND; WEST COAST [SOUTH ISLAND];

EID: 84880638424     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.04.015     Document Type: Article

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