Open AccessGiant Snails’ Century-Old Shells Recorded Monsoon Rainfall
Author(s) -
Kimberly Cartier
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2017eo083079
Subject(s) - monsoon , geology , geography , climatology , paleontology , physical geography
Researchers explored past precipitation in India using shells from very large land snails collected there in 1918 and preserved in a British museum.