Environmental response to climatic and volcanic events in central Europe during the Weichselian Lateglacial

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-32

  Litt, Thomas ^a   Schmincke, Hans Ulrich ^b   Kromer, Bernd ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEDIMENTS; VOLCANOES; GEOLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCES;

GEO-BIOSPHERES; AMS RADIOCARBON DATING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTS; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; RADIOCARBON DATING; RESEARCH PRIORITIES; TERRESTRIAL PLANTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; BIOSPHERICS;

LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; VOLCANISM; WEICHSELIAN;

(CENTRAL); EUROPE;

EID: 0037213945     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(02)00180-4     Document Type: Article

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