Changes in solar activity and Holocene climatic shifts derived from 14C wiggle-match dated peat deposits

Holocene

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-52

  Mauquoy, Dmitri ^a   Van Geel, Bas ^b   Blaauw, Maarten ^b   Speranza, Alessandra ^b   Van Der Plicht, Johannes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; 14C wiggle match dating; Carbon accumulation; Late Holocene; Palaeoclimate; Solar forcing; Sphagnum; 14C

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CANIS; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 0346640514     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683604hl688rp     Document Type: Review

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