Tephra horizons contemporary with short early Holocene climate fluctuations: New results from the Faroe Islands

Quaternary International

Volumn 246, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 157-167

  Lind, Ewa M ^a   Wastegård, Stefan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; RHYOLITE; TEPHRA;

FAROE ISLANDS; SWEDEN;

EID: 81255168025     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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