Occurrence of varved lake sediment sequences in Värmland, west central Sweden: Lake characteristics, varve chronology and AMS radiocarbon dating

Boreas

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 612-626

  Zillén, Lovisa ^a   Snowball, Ian ^a   Sandgren, Per ^a   Stanton, Tania ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; VARVE;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0242658813     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03009480310004189     Document Type: Article

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