Review of palaeoclimate records from Northeast India based on pollen proxy data of Late Pleistocene-Holocene

Quaternary International

Volumn 325, Issue , 2014, Pages 41-54

  Mehrotra, Nivedita ^a   Shah, Santosh K ^a   Bhattacharyya, Amalava ^a  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

INDIA;

EID: 84896108618     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.10.061     Document Type: Article

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