Abrupt climatic changes and an unstable transition into a late Holocene thermal decline: A multiproxy lacustrine record from southern Sweden

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 349-362

  Jessen, Catherine A ^a   Rundgren, Mats ^a   Björck, Svante ^a   Hammarlund, Dan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CO2; Holocene climatic transition; Lake sediments; Multiproxy; Sweden

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

CORYLUS;

EID: 19944374155     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.921     Document Type: Article

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