Climatic evolution during the Middle Pleistocene warm period of Bilshausen, Germany, compared to the Holocene

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 27-28, 2010, Pages 3736-3749

  Kühl, Norbert ^a   Gobet, Erika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CENTRAL EUROPE; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; CLIMATIC EVOLUTION; FOREST DEVELOPMENT; GERMANY; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HOLOCENES; INTERGLACIALS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; NORTH SEA; PLEISTOCENE; POLLEN COUNTS; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; TEMPERATURE VALUES; TREE SPECIES;

CLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOLOCENE; HOLSTEINIAN; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY; NORTH SEA;

EID: 78549263344     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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