A Multiproxy Paleoclimate Reconstruction over the Last 250 kyr from Marine Sediments: The Northwest African Margin and the Western Mediterranean Sea

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789400729285, 2012, Pages 3-17

  Moreno, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Marine sediments; Multiproxy approach; Northwest African margin; Paleoclimate reconstruction; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009364254     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2929-2_1     Document Type: Chapter

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