A dinoflagellate cyst record of Holocene climate and hydrological changes along the southeastern Swedish Baltic coast

Quaternary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-224

  Yu, Shi Yong ^a,b   Berglund, Björn E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Climate changes; Dinoflagellate cysts; Holocene; Littorina transgression; North Atlantic storminess

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC COAST [SWEDEN]; BALTIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

DINOPHYCEAE; LITTORINA;

EID: 33846908536     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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