Reconstruction of climate and glacial history based on a comparison of varve and tree-ring records from Mirror Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 13-14, 2008, Pages 1426-1441

  Tomkins, Jessica D ^a   Lamoureux, Scott F ^a   Sauchyn, David J ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; ICE; SEDIMENTS;

GLACIAL HISTORY; HYDROMETRIC RECORDS; TREE RING RECORDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LITTLE ICE AGE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VARVE;

FORESTRY; ICE; SEDIMENTS;

CANADA; MIRROR LAKE [NORTHWEST TERRITORIES]; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; SELWYN MOUNTAINS; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 46549085711     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.04.012     Document Type: Article

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