Climate of the Little Ice Age and the past 2000 years in northeast Iceland inferred from chironomids and other lake sediment proxies

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-24

  Axford, Yarrow ^a,b   Geirsdóttir, Áslaug ^a   Miller, Gifford H ^b   Langdon, Peter G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chironomidae; Holocene paleoclimate; Iceland; Little Ice Age; Midges; Paleolimnology

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; FLY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; ORGANIC NITROGEN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; SILICA; SOIL EROSION; SUBFOSSIL; TAXONOMY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 58349089218     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-008-9251-1     Document Type: Article

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