Tephra-dated climate- and human-impact studies during the last 1500 years from a raised bog in Central Ireland

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1086-1093

  Hall, V A ^a   Mauquoy, Dmitri ^b,c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Historic land use; Icelandic tephrochronology; Ireland; Plant macrofossils; Pollen; Raised bog

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; HOLOCENE; LAND USE; PALYNOLOGY; RAISED BOG; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; ICELAND; WORLD;

EID: 27644549859     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl880rr     Document Type: Article

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