Should Quaternary sea-level changes be used to correct glacier ELAs, vegetation belt altitudes and sea level temperatures for inferring climate changes?

Quaternary Research

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 244-251

  Osmaston, Henry A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Correction; Environmental lapse rate; Equilibrium line altitude; Glacier; Quaternary; Sea level; Vegetation belt

Indexed keywords

PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY;

EID: 33644609016     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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