Lateglacial summer temperatures in the Northwest European lowlands: a chironomid record from Hijkermeer, the Netherlands

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 19-21, 2007, Pages 2420-2437

  Heiri, Oliver ^a   Cremer, Holger ^b   Engels, Stefan ^c   Hoek, Wim Z ^a   Peeters, Willem ^a   Lotter, André F ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; LAKES; OXYGEN; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VEGETATION;

LATEGLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; POLLEN ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTIONS;

GLACIERS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DIATOM; FLY; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SUMMER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

BENELUX; DRENTHE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HIJKERMEER; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 36349025168     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.06.017     Document Type: Article

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