Lake-level fluctuations at Le Locle, Swiss Jura, from the Younger Dryas to the mid-Holocene: A high-resolution record of climate oscillations during the final deglaciation

Geographie Physique et Quaternaire

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 183-197

  Magny, Michel ^a   Schoellammer, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

JURA MOUNTAINS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0033506316     PISSN: 07057199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/005693ar     Document Type: Article

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