Solar forcing of climatic change during the mid-Holocene: Indications from raised bogs in the Netherlands

Holocene

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-44

  Blaauw, Maarten ^a,c   Van Geel, Bas ^a   Van Der Plicht, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

14C wiggle match dating; Climatic change; mid Holocene; Raised bogs; Solar forcing; The Netherlands; Wet shifts

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAISED BOG; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1642506279     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683604hl687rp     Document Type: Review

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