The Lateglacial and early Holocene vegetation and environment in the Dovre mountains, central Norway, as signalled in two Lateglacial nunatak lakes

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 13-14, 2011, Pages 1780-1796

  Paus, Aage ^a   Velle, Gaute ^a   Berge, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alpine central norway; Chironomids; Early holocene; July mean temperatures; Lateglacial; Pollen; Unstable climate

Indexed keywords

ALPINE CENTRAL NORWAY; CHIRONOMIDS; HOLOCENES; LATEGLACIAL; MEAN TEMPERATURE; POLLEN; UNSTABLE CLIMATE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; LANDFORMS; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

VEGETATION;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLONIZATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FLY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; INTERSTADIAL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LATE GLACIAL; NUNATAK; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PIONEER SPECIES; POLLEN; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SCANDINAVIAN ICE SHEET; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SHRUB; VEGETATION HISTORY;

DOVREFJELL; NORWAY;

ALNUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; PICEA;

EID: 79958011492     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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