Climatic change in Chile at around 2700 BP and global evidence for solar forcing: A hypothesis

Holocene

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 659-664

  Van Geel, Bas ^a   Heusser, Calvin J ^b   Renssen, Hans ^c   Schuurmans, Cor J E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Vrije Universiteit ^*  (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

2700 BP; Chile; Climatic change; Climatic teleconnections; Late Holocene; Solar forcing; Subboreal Subatlantic transition

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GLACIATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; SOLAR ACTIVITY; WEICHSELIAN;

CHILE;

EID: 0033837552     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/09596830094908     Document Type: Review

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