Medieval climate warming and aridity as indicated by multiproxy evidence from the Kola Peninsula, Russia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 209, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 113-125

  Kremenetski, K V ^a,b   Boettger, T ^c   MacDonald, G M ^a   Vaschalova, T ^d   Sulerzhitsky, L ^e   Hiller, A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f Institute of Interdisciplinary Isotope Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Buried soils; Climate; Isotope studies; Medieval optimum; Radiocarbon dating

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIOCARBON DATING; WARMING;

EURASIA; KOLA PENINSULA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

COLA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 3042803383     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.02.018     Document Type: Article

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