Vegetation and climate history in the Westeifel Volcanic Field (Germany) during the past 11 000 years based on annually laminated lacustrine maar sediments

Boreas

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 679-690

  Litt, Thomas ^a   Schölzel, Christian ^a   Kühl, Norbert ^a   Brauer, Achim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAAR; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

GERMANY; RHINELAND-PALATINATE; WEST EIFEL VOLCANIC FIELD;

EID: 73849150323     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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