Glacial to Holocene climate changes in the SE Pacific. The Raraku Lake sedimentary record (Easter Island, 27°S)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 25-26, 2009, Pages 2743-2759

  Sáez, Alberto ^a   Valero Garcés, Blas L ^b   Giralt, Santiago ^c   Moreno, Ana ^b   Bao, Roberto ^d   Pueyo, Juan J ^a   Hernández, Armand ^c   Casas, David ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; CLIMATE PATTERNS; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; DEGLACIATIONS; EASTER ISLAND; EXTRATROPICAL; FLOOD EVENT; GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE; GLACIAL INTERGLACIAL TRANSITION; GLACIAL PERIOD; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENES; HUMAN IMPACT; HUMID CLIMATES; HUMID CONDITIONS; INFILLING; LAKE DYNAMICS; LAKE LEVELS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LITTLE ICE AGE; LOW WATER; MIDLATITUDES; MULTI CORE; OPEN FORESTS; ORGANIC DEPOSITION; PALEO-HYDROLOGY; PALEOCLIMATIC DATA; POLLEN DATA; RADIOCARBON DATES; REGION-BASED; REGIONAL SCALE; SCALE CONTROL; SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SHALLOW LAKES; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; STORM TRACK; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK; WARMER CONDITIONS; WATERSHED PROCESS;

AQUIFERS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; EUTROPHICATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER;

LAKES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAND USE CHANGE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LIMNOLOGY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

AQUIFERS; CLIMATES; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; EUTROPHICATION; HYDROLOGY; LAKES; LAND USE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; WATER;

EASTER ISLAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; BOS;

EID: 70350060050     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.06.018     Document Type: Article

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