Climate variations in Britain during the last Glacial-Holocene transition (15.0-11.5 cal ka BP): Comparison with the GRIP ice-core record

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 411-423

  Mayle, F E ^a,b   Bell, M ^b   Birks, Hilary H ^c   Brooks, S J ^d   Coope, G R ^a   Lowe, J J ^a   Sheldrick, C ^a   Li, Shijie ^a,f   Turney, C S M ^a   Walker, M J C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^f NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

British Isles; GRIP ice cores; Insects; Palaeoclimate; Plants

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GRIP; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032925027     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.156.2.0411     Document Type: Article

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