A high-resolution record of late-Holocene moisture variability from a Michigan raised bog, USA

Holocene

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 863-876

  Booth, Robert K ^a,b   Jackson, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Fagus; Great Lakes water levels; Humification; Late Holocene; Michigan; Raised bog; Testate amoebae; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; LAKE DYNAMICS; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RAISED BOG; VEGETATION HISTORY; WATER LEVEL;

UNITED STATES;

FAGUS; PICEA;

EID: 0142103661     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683603hl669rp     Document Type: Article

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