Recent warming in a 500-year palaeotemperature record from varved sediments, Upper Soper Lake, Baffin Island, Canada

Holocene

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-19

  Hughen, Konrad A ^a,d   Overpeck, Jonathan T ^a,b   Anderson, Robert F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canadian Arctic; Climate change; Global warming; Palaeoclimate; Varved sediments

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; VARVE; WARMING;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; NUNAVUT;

LAMIINAE;

EID: 0033964825     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968300676746202     Document Type: Article

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