Tephra correlations and climatic events between the MIS6/5 transition and the beginning of MIS3 in Theopetra Cave, central Greece

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 118, Issue , 2015, Pages 170-181

  Karkanas, Panagiotis ^a   White, Dustin ^b   Lane, Christine S ^c   Stringer, Chris ^d   Davies, William ^b   Cullen, Victoria L ^c   Smith, Victoria C ^c   Ntinou, Maria ^e   Tsartsidou, Georgia ^a   Kyparissi Apostolika, Nina ^a  

^a Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology Speleology of Southern Greece ^*  (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cave; Climate change; Mediterranean; MIS6 5 transition; Palaeolithic; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

CAVES; COMBUSTION; STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; LAST DEGLACIATION; MEDITERRANEAN; MIS6/5 TRANSITION; PALAEOLITHIC; TEPHRA CORRELATIONS; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VEGETATION SUCCESSIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84937923812     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.027     Document Type: Article

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