A diatom-based Holocene palaeoenvironmental record from a mid-arctic lake on Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada

Holocene

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 417-425

  LeBlanc, M ^a   Gajewski, K ^a   Hamilton, P B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; Arctic; Canada; Climate change; Diatom; Holocene; Lake sediments

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FRAGILARIA; LIA;

EID: 2442622425     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683604hl717rp     Document Type: Article

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