Testing the palaeoclimatic significance of the Northern Irish bog oak record

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-159

  Swindles, Graeme T ^a   Plunkett, Gill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bog oaks; Climate change; Ireland; Peatland; Solar forcing; Water table

Indexed keywords

BOG; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PEATLAND; RECONSTRUCTION; WATER TABLE;

EUROPE;

QUERCUS;

EID: 77649243564     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609350396     Document Type: Article

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