Lake sediments from Store Koldewey, Northeast Greenland, as archive of Late Pleistocene and Holocene climatic and environmental changes

Boreas

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-71

  Klug, Martin ^a   Schmidt, Steffi ^a   Melles, Martin ^a   Wagner, Bernd ^a   Bennike, Ole ^b   Heiri, Oliver ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; STORE KOLDEWEY;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 62649167893     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2008.00038.x     Document Type: Article

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