Climate Variation in Amazonia during the Neogene and the Quaternary

Amazonia, Landscape and Species Evolution: A Look into the Past

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 201-210

  Vonhof, Hubert B ^a   Kaandorp, Ron J G ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amazonian climate, past and present; Climate variability of Neogene Amazonia; Climate variation in Amazonia during Neogene and Quaternary; Climate, factors in Amazonian landscape and biodiversity development; Glacial interglacial variation of Amazonian climate and temperature and rainfall variation; Milankovitch forced insolation changes; Miocene seasonality as in shells from Peruvian Pebas Formation; Quaternary climate evolution of Amazonia glacial interglacial variation; Quaternary glacial interglacial variability and Milankovitch forced solar insolation variation; Solar insolation and Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) deep atmospheric convection, with prolific rainfall

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EID: 84987693776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306408.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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