Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental changes documented by microfaunas and shell stable isotopes in the southern Pearl River Delta plain, South China

Journal of Palaeogeography

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 344-361

  Chunlian, Liu ^a   Fürsich, Franz T ^b   Jie, Wu ^a,c   Yixin, Dong ^a   Tingting, Yang ^a   Jian, Yin ^a   Yuan, Wang ^d   Min, Liu ^d  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Mineral Resource Exploration and Geological Processes   (China)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Late Quaternary; microfauna; palaeoenvironment; Pearl River Delta; shell stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018218908     PISSN: 20953836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1261.2013.00035     Document Type: Article

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