Late Weichselian (Valdaian) and Holocene vegetation and environmental history of the northern Timan Ridge, European Arctic Russia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 21-22, 2003, Pages 2285-2302

  Paus, Aage ^a   Svendsen, John Inge ^a   Matiouchkov, Alexei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; DEPOSITS; ICE; PEAT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

DEGLACIATION;

LAKES;

HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION HISTORY; WEICHSELIAN;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TIMAN RIDGE;

EID: 0042381043     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00136-7     Document Type: Article

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