Radiocarbon wiggle-match dating of proglacial lake sediments - Implications for the 8.2 ka event

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 267-277

  Hormes, Anne ^a   Blaauw, Maarten ^b   Dahl, Svein Olaf ^c   Nesje, Atle ^c   Possnert, Goran ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

8.2 ka event; 9.2 ka event; Fannar kbreen; Glacier variations; Holocene; Jotunheimen; Nedre Hervavatnet; Norway; Radiocarbon wiggle match dating

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; DATING METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLACIER; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NEDRE HERVAVATNET; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

BETULA; CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA; SALIX;

EID: 67349254150     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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