Late Holocene climate of the Eastern Mediterranean inferred from diatom analysis of annually-laminated lake sediments

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 3381-3392

  Woodbridge, Jessie ^a   Roberts, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crater lake; Diatom; Eastern Mediterranean; Palaeoclimate; Salinity; Transfer function; Turkey

Indexed keywords

CRATER LAKE; DIATOM; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; PALAEOCLIMATE; SALINITY; TURKEY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BLOOMS (METAL); CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ISOTOPES; LAMINATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

LAKES;

ALGAL BLOOM; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONDUCTIVITY; CRATER LAKE; DECADAL VARIATION; DIATOM; DROUGHT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE WATER; LAMINATION; LAND COVER; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SALINITY; SEDIMENT CORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WATER BUDGET;

NAR LAKE; NIGDE; TURKEY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 82455175357     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.08.013     Document Type: Article

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