The allerød-younger dryas pollen zone boundary in an 800-year varve chronology from southeastern sweden

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Volumn 121, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 287-292

  Björck, Jonas ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic ice lake; Clay varve chronology; Fennoscandian ice sheet; Grip; Isotope stratigraphy; Late weichselian; Pollen analysis; Radiocarbon dates; Southeastern sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000447872     PISSN: 11035897     EISSN: 20000863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11035899901214287     Document Type: Article

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