Environment and climate of the Crimean Mountains during the late pleistocene inferred from stable isotope analysis of red deer (Cervus elaphus) bones from the emine-bair-khosar cave

Quaternary International

Volumn 326-327, Issue , 2014, Pages 243-249

  Gąsiorowski, Michał ^a   Hercman, Helena ^a   Ridush, Bogdan ^b,c   Stefaniak, Krzysztof ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b CHERNIVTSI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c Ukrainian Institute of Speleology and Karstology   (Ukraine)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CAVE DEPOSIT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEER; HERBIVORE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; VEGETATION TYPE;

CRIMEA; CRIMEAN MOUNTAINS; UKRAINE;

ANIMALIA; CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 84897061378     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.020     Document Type: Article

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