Watershed-scale reconstruction of middle and late Holocene paleoenvironmental changes on Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 17-18, 2010, Pages 2302-2314

  Adams, Jennifer K ^a   Finkelstein, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ANTHROPOCENE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; ARCTIC REGIONS; BIOGENIC SILICA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; CLIMATIC CHANGES; COARSE-GRAINED SEDIMENTS; CONTINENTAL CLIMATE; DIATOM ASSEMBLAGE; ECOLOGICAL CHANGES; HOLOCENES; ICE-CAPS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LATE HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAXIMUM VALUES; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; PLANKTONIC DIATOMS; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; REGIONAL SCALE; SEDIMENT ORGANIC MATTERS; SPECIES RICHNESS; THERMAL MAXIMA;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICA; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ICE;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLOCENE; ICE CAP; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; WATERSHED;

BOOTHIA PENINSULA; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; MELVILLE PENINSULA; NUNAVUT;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 77955272824     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.05.033     Document Type: Article

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