A 12 000-year record of environmental change in the Lomond Hills, Fife, Scotland: Vegetational and climatic variability

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 133-152

  Edwards, Kevin J ^a   Whittington, Graeme ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Holocene; Late glacial; Palynology; Scotland

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944450801     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01372567     Document Type: Article

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