The impact of Last Glacial climate variability in west-European loess revealed by radiocarbon dating of fossil earthworm granules

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 24, 2017, Pages 6209-6214

  Moine, Olivier ^a   Antoine, Pierre ^a   Hatté, Christine ^b   Landais, Amaëlle ^b   Mathieu, Jérôme ^c   Prud'homme, Charlotte ^a   Rousseau, Denis Didier ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthworm calcite granules; Last glacial loess Europe; Millennial Timescale climate change; Radiocarbon dating

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON 14;

ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GERMANY; GLACIER; GREENLAND; LUMBRICUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOIL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EUROPE; FOSSIL; ICE COVER; METABOLISM; OLIGOCHAETA; PROCEDURES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SOIL;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPE; FOSSILS; GREENLAND; ICE COVER; OLIGOCHAETA; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SOIL;

EID: 85020736366     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1614751114     Document Type: Article

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