The Acridian plagues, a new Holocene and Pleistocene palaeoclimatic indicator


Autoria(s): Meco, J.; Petit Maire, Nicole; Ballester Santos, Javier; Betancort-Lozano, Juan Francisco; Ramos, Antonio G.
Data(s)

20/07/2016

20/07/2016

2010

Resumo

<p>[EN] Five palaeosols, intercalated within the Quaternary dune beds of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote (Canary Islands), off the Moroccan coast, mark wetter climatic episodes. In all of them, billions of calcified insect ootheca testify to past occurrences of Acridian plagues, such as those reaching the western Sahara following heavy rainfall events over the Sahel.</p>

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10553/17954

606922

<p>10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.01.007</p>

Idioma(s)

eng

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Acceso libre

Fonte

<p>Global and planetary change. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010. Vol. 72, nº 4, p. 318 -320. ISSN: 0921-8181. </p>

Palavras-Chave #24 Ciencias de la vida #2416 Paleontología #250205 Paleoclimatología
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/other