Long-term river discharge and multidecadal climate variability inferred from varved sediments, southwest Alaska

Quaternary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Kaufman, Claire A ^a   Lamoureux, Scott F ^a   Kaufman, Darrell S ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aleutian Low; Climate variability; Discharge; North Pacific Index; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Southwest Alaska; Varves

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN LOW; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; NORTH PACIFIC; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SOUTHWEST ALASKA; VARVES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GRAIN SIZE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TIMESCALE; VARVE;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959281020     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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