Lateglacial vegetation and palaeoenvironment in W Norway, with new pollen data from the Sunnmøre region

Boreas

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 616-635

  Krüger, Linn Cecilie ^a   Paus, Aage ^a   Svendsen, John Inge ^a   Bjune, Anne E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; VEGETATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

MORE OG ROMSDAL; NORWAY; SUNNMORE;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA NORVEGICA; EMPETRUM; POACEAE;

EID: 80053338760     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011.00213.x     Document Type: Article

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