A Record of Environmental and Climatic Change from the West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, using Beetle Fossils

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A Record of Environmental and Climatic Change from the West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, using Beetle Fossils

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Fossil beetle based palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions are presented from the Westport region, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand for the last glacial cycle. They include the longest continuous fossil beetle record from New Zealand, covering 16,000 years over the OIS 3/OIS 2 transition. Early last glacial (OIS 4) and mid- Holocene (OIS 1) reconstructions are also presented. The assumptions underlying fossil beetle research in New Zealand are tested indicating beetles ar...

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Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2007

URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1381

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Beetle fossils / quaternary / glacial climate / glacial environment / New Zealand

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