S Holocene climate variability in the Denmark Strait region - A land-sea correlation of new and existing climate proxy records

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 159-174

  Adresen, Camilla S ^a   Björck, Svante ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biogenic silica; Climate variability; Denmark Strait; Sand petrology

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; DENMARK STRAIT; WORLD;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 20944432742     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3676.2005.00250.x     Document Type: Review

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