Interglacial history of a palaeo-lake and regional environment: A multi-proxy study of a permafrost deposit from Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island, Arctic Siberia

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 855-872

  Ilyashuk, Boris P ^a   Andreev, Andrei A ^b   Bobrov, Anatoly A ^c   Tumskoy, Vladimir E ^c   Ilyashuk, Elena A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NORTH INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chironomids; Last Interglacial; Palaeoenvironment; Pollen; Rhizopods; Yakutia

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERGLACIAL; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; POLLEN; SAALIAN; SHRUB; THERMOKARST; VEGETATION;

ARCTIC; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SIBERIA;

ALNUS FRUTICOSA; ARTEMISIA; BETULA NANA; BETULACEAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; POACEAE; PROCLADIUS; RHIZOPODA; SALIX;

EID: 33745714146     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-005-5859-6     Document Type: Article

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