Striking similarities in temporal changes to spring sea ice occurrence across the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago over the last 7000 years

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 25-26, 2010, Pages 3489-3504

  Belt, Simon T ^a   Vare, Lindsay L ^a   Massé, Guillaume ^a,b   Manners, Hayley R ^a   Price, John C ^a   MacLachlan, Suzanne E ^c   Andrews, John T ^d   Schmidt, Sabine ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO; HOLOCENES; LATE HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY MEASUREMENTS; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALAEOCLIMATE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PISTON CORES; PROXY DATA; SPATIAL CONSISTENCY; STUDY SITES; TEMPORAL CHANGE; THERMAL MAXIMA;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

SEA ICE;

BIOMARKER; DIATOM; HOLOCENE; MACROBENTHOS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT CORE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BALAENIDAE;

EID: 78049443507     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.041     Document Type: Article

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