Unstable early-Holocene climatic and environmental conditions in northwestern Russia derived from a multidisciplinary study of a lake-sediment sequence from Pichozero, southeastern Russian Karelia

Holocene

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 732-746

  Wohlfarth, Barbara ^a   Schwark, Lorenz ^b   Bennike, Ole ^c   Filimonova, Ludmila ^d   Tarasov, Pavel ^e   Björkman, Leif ^f   Brunnberg, Lars ^a   Demidov, Igor ^g   Possnert, Göran ^h  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^h UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Early Holocene; Lacustrine sediments; Lateglacial; Multiproxy study; Northwestern Russia; Palaeoclimate; Palaeoenvironment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

EURASIA; KARELIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ABIES; BETULA; BETULA PUBESCENS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 4544365254     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683604hl751rp     Document Type: Article

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