Holocene optimum events inferred from subglacial sediments at Tschierva Glacier, Eastern Swiss Alps

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 337-350

  Joerin, U E ^a   Nicolussi, K ^b   Fischer, A ^b   Stocker, T F ^a   Schluchter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSIL FUELS; GLACIERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

SUBGLACIAL SEDIMENTARY; SUBGLACIAL SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION GROWTH;

SEDIMENTS;

CONFLUENCE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; SEASONALITY; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAUBUNDEN; SWITZERLAND; TSCHIERVA GLACIER;

EID: 39149135263     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.10.016     Document Type: Article

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