Holocene climate and vegetation dynamics on Nightingale Island, South Atlantic-an apparent interglacial bipolar seesaw in action?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 25-28, 2007, Pages 3150-3166

  Ljung, K ^a   Bjorck S ^a  

^a GeoBiosphere Science Centre   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; HYDROLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

HOLOCENE CLIMATE; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (MOC); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SST);

VEGETATION;

AEROSOL; GYTTJA; HEAT TRANSFER; HOLOCENE; HUMIDITY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; INTERGLACIAL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PEAT; POLLEN; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); NIGHTINGALE ISLAND; SAINT HELENA; SOUTH AMERICA; TRISTAN DA CUNHA;

EID: 36849006494     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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