Proxy records of climate change in the UK over the last two millennia: Documented change and sedimentary records from lakes and bogs

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 369-380

  Barber, K E ^e   Battarbee, R W ^e   Brooks, S J ^a   Eglinton, G ^e   Haworth, E Y ^b   Oldfield, F ^e   Stevenson, A C ^e   Thompson, R ^e   Appleby, P G ^e   Austin, W E N ^e   Cameron, N G ^e   Ficken, K J ^e   Golding, P ^e   Harkness, D D ^c   Holmes, J A ^d   Hutchinson, R ^e   Lishman, J P ^b   Maddy, D ^e   Pinder, L C V ^b   Rose, N L ^e   Stoneman, R E ^e   more..

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Monks Wood Experimental Station ^*

Author keywords

Climate; Holocene; Palaeolimnology; Peat; Proxy records

Indexed keywords

BOG; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CORE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032945825     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.156.2.0369     Document Type: Article

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