High resolution sediment and vegetation responses to Younger Dryas climate change in varved lake sediments from Meerfelder Maar, Germany

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 321-329

  Brauer, Achim ^a   Endres, Christoph ^a   Günter, Christina ^a,b   Litt, Thomas ^c   Stebich, Martina ^c   Negendank, Jörg F W ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; VEGETATION HISTORY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

GERMANY;

EID: 0033105545     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00084-5     Document Type: Article

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