Holocene paleoenvironmental changes inferred from diatom assemblages in sediments of Kusawa Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada

Quaternary Research

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-22

  Chakraborty, Krish ^a   Finkelstein, Sarah A ^a   Desloges, Joseph R ^a   Chow, Nicole A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogenic silica; Diatoms; Holocene Thermal Maximum; Lake sediments; Paleoclimatology; Paleoproductivity; The Sub arctic; Yukon Territory

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HYPSITHERMAL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; SILICA;

CANADA; KUSAWA LAKE; YUKON TERRITORY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 77954028660     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.04.011     Document Type: Article

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