Stratified interglacial lacustrine sediments from Baffin Island, Arctic Canada: Chronology and paleoenvironmental implications

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 789-810

  Miller, Gifford H ^a   Mode, William N ^b   Wolfe, Alexander P ^a   Sauer, Peter E ^a,e   Bennike, Ole ^c   Forman, Steven L ^d   Short, Susan K ^a   Stafford Jr , Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; INTERGLACIAL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

CANADA;

EID: 0033135284     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00075-4     Document Type: Article

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