Stable vegetation and environmental conditions during the Last Glacial Maximum: New results from Lake Kotokel (Lake Baikal region, southern Siberia, Russia)

Quaternary International

Volumn 348, Issue , 2014, Pages 14-24

  Müller, Stefanie ^a   Tarasov, Pavel E ^a   Hoelzmann, Philipp ^a   Bezrukova, Elena V ^b,c   Kossler, Annette ^a   Krivonogov, Sergey K ^d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^c VINOGRADOV INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^d SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOME; BOREAL FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOSSIL; GRASSLAND; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION COVER;

BURYATIA; KOTOKEL LAKE; LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 84908551144     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.012     Document Type: Article

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