Northern Europe climate variations during late Holocene: Evidence from marine Skagerrak

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 121-145

  Hass, H Christian ^a,b  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROMAN;

HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

NORTH SEA, SKAGERRAK;

EID: 0030176740     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00114-X     Document Type: Article

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