Late-Holocene light-ring chronologies from subfossil black spruce stems in mires of subarctic Quebec

Holocene

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 129-137

  Lavoie, Claude ^a,b   Payette, Serge ^a  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black spruce; Dendrochronology; Late Holocene; Light rings; Palsa peatlands; Picea mariana; Subarctic Quebec

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE (LATE); PEATLANDS; SPRUCE;

CANADA, QUEBEC;

EID: 0030616909     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095968369700700201     Document Type: Article

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