Late holocene palaeoclimatic records from lake sediments on James Ross Island, Antarctica

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 195-220

  Björck, Svante ^a   Olsson, Siv ^b   Ellis Evans, Cynan ^c   Håkansson, Hannelore ^b   Humlum, Ole ^a   De Lirio, Juan Manuel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTO ANTÁRTICO ARGENTINO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE OPTIMUM; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENT; LAKE SEDIMENT; MELTWATER; PALAEOCLIMATE;

ANTARCTICA, JAMES ROSS ISLAND;

EID: 0030438714     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00086-0     Document Type: Article

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