Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and geoarchaeology of the Cuatro CieĢnegas Basin, NE Mexico, from the late Pleistocene to the present

With over 200 pools, lakes and rivers supporting over 70 species of endemic flora and fauna, the Cuatro Cienegas Basin, Coahuila, NE Mexico is an extremely important and extensively studied area in terms of conservation. The palaeoenvironment, however, is relatively understudied with only two reconstructions published to date - Meyer [1973] and Minckley and Jackson [2008]. This project has analysed a 15 m carbonate sediment core for multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental information and combined this with stable isotope, modern hydrological and geoarchaeological information in the Cuatro Cienegas Basin.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:572046
Date January 2012
CreatorsFelstead, Nicholas James
PublisherLiverpool John Moores University
Source SetsEthos UK
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Sourcehttp://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/6171/

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