Rapid climate change during the early Holocene in western Europe and Greenland

Holocene

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-158

  Prasad, Sushma ^a   Brauer, Achim ^a   Rein, Bert ^b   Negendank, Jörg F W ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

8.2 ka event; Greenland; Holocene; Palaeoclimate; Varve microfacies; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; MICROFACIES; PALEOCLIMATE; VARVE;

ARCTIC; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; GREENLAND; LAKE HOLZMAAR; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

EID: 33645404368     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683606hl916ft     Document Type: Article

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