Regional consistency in Lateglacial chironomid-inferred temperatures from five sites in north-west England

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 1528-1538

  Lang, Barbara ^a,c   Brooks, Stephen J ^b   Bedford, Alan ^c   Jones, Richard T ^d   Birks, H John B ^e,f   Marshall, Jim D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CENTRAL EUROPE; CLIMATE SIGNATURES; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC EVENTS; ENGLAND; GREENLAND; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; ICE CORE; LATEGLACIAL; LOSS-ON-IGNITION; MAJOR EVENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC; RAPID SHIFTS; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SMALL AREA; TEMPERATURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; LAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FLY; ICE CORE; INTERSTADIAL; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77954819822     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.02.023     Document Type: Article

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