A reassessment of late glacial - Holocene diatom oxygen isotope record from Lake Baikal using a geochemical mass-balance approach

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 627-634

  Mackay, Anson W ^a   Swann, George E A ^b   Brewer, Tim S ^c   Leng, Melanie J ^d   Morley, David W ^a,e   Piotrowska, Natalia ^f   Rioual, Patrick ^g   White, Dustin ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

18Odiatom; Holocene; IRD events; Lake Baikal; Late glacial

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; DIATOM; HEMATITE; HOLOCENE; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; LATE GLACIAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); YOUNGER DRYAS;

LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 79951571710     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1484     Document Type: Article

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