The first report of a Campanian palaeo-wildfire in the West Antarctic Peninsula

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 418, Issue , 2015, Pages 12-18

  Manfroi, Joseline ^a,b   Dutra, Tânia Lindner ^a   Gnaedinger, Silvia ^c   Uhl, Dieter ^b,d,e   Jasper, André ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO UNIVATES   (Brazil)

^c Centro de Ecologia Aplicada del Littoral   (Argentina)

^d SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coniferous wood; Macroscopic charcoal; Rip Point; South Shetland Islands; Volcanic events

Indexed keywords

CAMPANIAN; CHARCOAL; CONIFEROUS TREE; FIRE HISTORY; FOREARC BASIN; NEW RECORD; OUTCROP; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WILDFIRE;

ANTARCTICA; NELSON ISLAND [SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS]; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

EID: 84912051959     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.11.012     Document Type: Article

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