Chironomid-based reconstruction of Lateglacial summer temperatures from the Ech palaeolake record (French western Pyrenees)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 315-316, Issue , 2012, Pages 86-99

  Millet, L ^a   Rius, D ^a,b   Galop, D ^b   Heiri, O ^c   Brooks, S J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b Laboratoire Geode   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chironomids; Lateglacial; Summer temperature; Western Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CHRONOLOGY; DATA SET; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; INSECT; LATE GLACIAL; OLDER DRYAS; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SUMMER; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ALPS; FRANCE; PYRENEES;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 84855809356     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.11.014     Document Type: Article

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