Century-scale variability in late-summer rainfall events recorded over seven centuries in subannually laminated lacustrine sediments, White Pass, British Columbia

Quaternary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-203

  Cockburn, Jaclyn M H ^a   Lamoureux, Scott F ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Climate change; Little Ice Age; Precipitation; Subannual sedimentary units; Varves

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; RIVER DISCHARGE; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SNOWPACK;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WHITE PASS;

EID: 33846917267     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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