Radiocarbon dating of a recent high latitude peat profile: Stor Amyran, northern Sweden

Holocene

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 283-290

  Oldfield, F ^a,g   Thompson, R ^b   Crooks, P R J ^a,h   Gedye, S J ^a,i   Hall, V A ^c   Harkness, D D ^d   Housley, R A ^e,j   McCormac, F G ^c   Newton, A J ^b   Pilcher, J R ^c   Renberg, I ^f,j   Richardson, N ^a,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g IGBP Past Global Changes Core P   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Chronology; Climate change; High latitudes; High precision dating; Late Holocene; Mass balance; Peat; Radiocarbon; Sweden; Tephra

Indexed keywords

BOREAL PEATLANDS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOLOGY; PEAT ACCUMULATION; RADIOCARBON DATING;

STOR AMYRAN; SWEDEN;

EID: 0030880446     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095968369700700304     Document Type: Article

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