A 600,000 year long continental pollen record from Lake Van, eastern Anatolia (Turkey)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 104, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-41

  Litt, Thomas ^a   Pickarski, Nadine ^a   Heumann, Georg ^a   Stockhecke, Mona ^b,c   Tzedakis, Polychronis C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Long continental pollen record; Near East; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

EASTERN ANATOLIA; LAKE VANS; LONG CONTINENTAL POLLEN RECORD; NEAR EAST; PALEOCLIMATES;

CLIMAX; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEEP DRILLING; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE CORE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; WATER DEPTH;

BLACK SEA; CASPIAN SEA; LAKE VAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKEY;

EID: 84909584452     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.03.017     Document Type: Review

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