Climatic fluctuations recorded in the sediment fillings of Loch Sunart (northwestern Scotland) since 20,000 BP;Fluctuations climatiques enregistrées depuis 20 000 ans dans le remplissage sédimentaire du loch Sunart (Nord-Ouest de l'Écosse)

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 339, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 150-160

  Mokeddem, Zohra ^a   Baltzer, Agnès ^a   Clet Pellerin, Martine ^a   Walter Simonnet, Anne Véronique ^b   Bates, Richard ^c   Balut, Yvon ^d   Bonnot Courtois, Chantal ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d Institut Polaire Francais Paul Emile Victor   (France)

^e PRODIG   (France)

Author keywords

14C; Cooling events; Palaeoenvironments; Pollen; Sedimentation; Seismic facies; Seistec Boomer

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLAND; LOCH SUNART; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947579558     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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