Lacustrine evidence of early-holocene environmental change in northern Iceland: A multiproxy palaeoecology and stable isotope study

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 205-214

  Langdon, P G ^a   Leng, M J ^b,c   Holmes, N ^d   Caseldine, C J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Betula; Carbon and oxygen isotopes; Chironomids; Climate change; Early Holocene; Iceland; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEGLACIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVAPORATION; FLY; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MELTING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PEDOGENESIS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ICELAND;

BETULA; CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 77649251495     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609354301     Document Type: Article

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