Pollen/climate calibration based on a near-annual peat sequence from the Swiss Alps

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 529-546

  Kamenik, Christian ^a   van der Knaap, Willem O ^a   van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F N ^a   Goslar, Tomasz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Calibration in time; High resolution dating; Palaeoclimatology; PAR; Pollen accumulation rates

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CALIBRATION; DATING METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LARIX; LEPIDOPTERA; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 69949168892     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1266     Document Type: Article

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