Elemental composition of the Laguna Potrok Aike sediment sequence reveals paleoclimatic changes over the past 51 ka in southern Patagonia, Argentina

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 349-366

  Hahn, Annette ^a,c   Kliem, Pierre ^a   Oehlerich, Markus ^b   Ohlendorf, Christian ^a   Zolitschka, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; ICDP; ITRAX; Lake sediments; Paleoclimate; PASADO; Principal component analysis; XRF scanning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921938721     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: 15730417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-014-9798-y     Document Type: Article

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