Groundwater-mediated response to holocene climatic change recorded by the diatom stratigraphy of an Ethiopian Crater Lake

Quaternary Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-75

  Telford, Richard J ^a   Lamb, Henry F ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Crater lake; Diatoms; Ethiopia; Groundwater; Holocene; Palaeolimnology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; GROUNDWATER; HOLOCENE; LAKE WATER; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; SEDIMENT CORE;

ETHIOPIA;

AULACOSEIRA GRANULATA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYCLOTELLA STELLIGERA;

EID: 0032749732     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1999.2034     Document Type: Article

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