Multi-proxy evidence for Holocene lake-level and salinity changes at An Loch Mór, a coastal lake on the Aran Islands, Western Ireland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 19-21, 2007, Pages 2438-2462

  Holmes, Jonathan ^a   Jones, Richard ^b   Nicolas Haas, Jean ^c   McDermott, Frank ^d   Molloy, Karen ^e   O'Connell, Michael ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS;

HOLOCENE LAKES; OSTRACOD FAUNA; PLANT MACROFOSSILS; WOODY VEGETATION;

LAKES;

CORE ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLOCENE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; OSTRACOD; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALEOSALINITY; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GALWAY BAY; HIGHLAND; IRELAND; LOCH MORE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 36248940714     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.06.020     Document Type: Article

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