The mineral magnetic properties of an annually laminated Holocene lake-sediment sequence in northern Sweden

Holocene

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 353-362

  Snowball, Ian ^a   Sandgren, Per ^a   Petterson, Gunilla ^b  

^a Department of Quaternary Geology ^*  (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Annually laminated sediments; Climatic change; Erosion; High resolution records; Holocene; Lake sediment; Mineral magnetism; Organic carbon; Sweden; Varves

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC MINERAL; SNOWMELT; VARVE;

LAKE SARSJON; SWEDEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032910913     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968399670520633     Document Type: Article

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