Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoseismic implications of a 3700-year sedimentary record from proglacial Lake Barrancs (Maladeta Massif, Central Pyrenees, Spain)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 294, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 83-93

  Larrasoaña, Juan C ^a   Ortuño, María ^b   Birks, Hilary H ^c,d   Valero Garcés, Blas ^e   Parés, Josep M ^f   Copons, Ramon ^g   Camarero, Lluís ^h   Bordonau, Jaume ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Bierknes Centre for Climate Change   (Norway)

^e INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g Georisc SL   (Spain)

^h CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental magnetism; Glacier fluctuations; Iberian Peninsula; Palaeoseismicity; Plant macrofossils; Proglacial lakes

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITION; DESICCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVAPORATION; FAULTING; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MINERAL; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSEISMICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SNOWMELT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; PYRENEES;

EID: 77955269567     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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