A 2000 year record of climatic change at Ongoke Lake, southwest Alaska

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-75

  Chipman, Melissa L ^a   Clarke, Gina H ^a,b   Clegg, Benjamin F ^a   Gregory Eaves, Irene ^c   Hu, Feng Sheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alaska; Biogenic silica; Diatoms; First millennium cooling; Late Holocene paleoclimate; Little Ice Age; Medieval climate anomaly; Water depth reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; ICE COVER; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEAD ISOTOPE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MOISTURE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER DEPTH;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; ONGOKE LAKE; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 58349084863     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-008-9257-8     Document Type: Article

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