Quaternary vegetation changes derived from a loess-like permafrost palaeosol sequence in northeast Siberia using alkane biomarker and pollen analyses

Boreas

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 540-550

  Zech, Michael ^a   Andreev, Andrei ^b   Zech, Roland ^c   Müller, Stefanie ^d   Hambach, Ulrich ^a   Frechen, Manfred ^e   Zech, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATA SET; GLACIATION; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; LATE GLACIAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PALYNOLOGY; PERMAFROST; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; REFORESTATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WEICHSELIAN;

SIBERIA;

LARIX;

EID: 77958190890     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00132.x     Document Type: Article

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