Climatic changes from 12,000 to 4,000 years ago in the Austrian Central Alps tracked by sedimentological and biological proxies of a lake sediment core

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 491-505

  Schmidt, Roland ^a   Kamenik, Christian ^b   Tessadri, Richard ^c   Koinig, Karin Anne ^c  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpine lake; Climate change; Diatom inferred environmental variables; Geochemistry; Mineralogy; PCA; Pollen

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SEDIMENT CORE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ALNUS VIRIDIS; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BETULACEAE;

EID: 33645078100     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-005-2351-2     Document Type: Article

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