Undrowning a lost world - The Marine Isotope Stage 3 landscape of Gibraltar

Geomorphology

Volumn 203, Issue , 2013, Pages 105-114

  Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín ^a   Finlayson, Geraldine ^b   Finlayson, Clive ^b,c   Negro, Juan J ^d   Cáceres, Luis M ^a   Fa, Darren A ^b   Carrión, José S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geomorphology; Gibraltar; MIS 3; Neanderthal; Vegetation; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

BEACH; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; NEANDERTHAL; SHORELINE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ANDALUCIA; DONANA NATIONAL PARK; GIBRALTAR; GORHAMS CAVE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 84887151396     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.02.015     Document Type: Article

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