Intriguing climatic shifts in a 90 kyr old lake record from northern Russia

Boreas

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-37

  Henriksen, Mona ^a,b   Mangerud, Jan ^a   Matiouchkov, Alexei ^c   Murray, Andrew S ^d   Paus, Aage ^a   Svendsen, John Inge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; SEDIMENT CORE; WEICHSELIAN;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; RUSSIAN PLATFORM; TIMAN RIDGE;

PICEA;

EID: 48049102528     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.00007.x     Document Type: Article

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