Climate-driven changes in lake conditions during late MIS 3 and MIS 2: A high-resolution geochemical record from Les Echets, France

Boreas

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 230-243

  Veres, Daniel ^a,b   Lallier Vergès, Elisabeth ^c   Wohlfarth, Barbara ^b   Lacourse, Terri ^d   Kéravis, Didier ^c   Björck, Svante ^e   Preusser, Frank ^f   Andrieu Ponel, Valérie ^g   Ampel, Linda ^b  

^a EMIL RACOVI INSTITUTE OF SPELEOLOGY   (Romania)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UMR 7327   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^g AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; HEINRICH EVENT; INTERSTADIAL; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LITHOLOGY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FRANCE; LES ECHETS; RHONE-ALPES;

EID: 73649129202     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2008.00066.x     Document Type: Article

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