Snapshots in time: Precise correlations of peat-based proxy climate records in Scotland using mid-Holocene tephras

Holocene

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-33

  Langdon, P G ^a   Barber, K E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bog; Glen Garry; Hekla 4; Mid Holocene; Mire; Proxy climate record; Scotland; Surface wetness; Tephra

Indexed keywords

BOG; HOLOCENE; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TEPHRA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

FRAXINUS;

EID: 0346640518     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683604hl686rp     Document Type: Review

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