Impact of Lateglacial cold events on the northern Aegean region reconstructed from marine and terrestrial proxy data

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 86-96

  Kotthoff, Ulrich ^a,b   Koutsodendris, Andreas ^a   Pross, Jörg ^a   Schmiedl, Gerhard ^b   Bornemann, André ^c   Kaul, Christian ^c   Marino, Gianluca ^d   Peyron, Odile ^e   Schiebel, Ralf ^f,g  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^e université Bourgogne Franche Comté   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

Eastern Mediterranean; Heinrich event 1; Land sea correlation; Lateglacial; Temperature changes; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

HEINRICH EVENT; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL; LATE GLACIAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOMORPH; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CORE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; YOUNGER DRYAS;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 78751553210     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1430     Document Type: Article

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