A late-glacial - Holocene palaeoecological record from Pye Lake on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia, Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 637-650

  Mott, Robert J ^a   Walker, Ian R ^b   Palmer, Samantha L ^c   Lavoie, Martin ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c DOUGLAS COLLEGE   (Canada)

^d CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFER SPECIES; HOLOCENES; NORTH ATLANTIC; NOVA SCOTIA; POLLEN ANALYSIS; RADIOCARBON DATING; RAPID COOLING; TREE SPECIES; TUNDRA VEGETATION; WATER TEMPERATURES; YOUNGER DRYAS;

COOLING; LAKES; LANDFORMS;

VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEGLACIATION; FOSSIL RECORD; GLOBAL WARMING; HERB; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL; LOGGING (TIMBER); PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SHRUB; VEGETATION HISTORY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA; PYE LAKE;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 70349829825     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E09-034     Document Type: Article

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