Non-linear Holocene climate evolution in the North Atlantic: A high-resolution, multi-proxy record of glacier activity and environmental change from Hvítárvatn, central Iceland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 39, Issue , 2012, Pages 14-25

  Larsen, Darren J ^a,b   Miller, Gifford H ^a,b   Geirsdóttir, Áslaug ^b   Ólafsdóttir, Sædís ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

8.2 Event; Glacier erosion; Holocene paleoclimate; Holocene thermal maximum; Iceland; Lake sediment; Little Ice Age; Medieval warm period; Neoglaciation; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

8.2 EVENT; HOLOCENE PALEOCLIMATE; HOLOCENES; ICELANDS; LAKE SEDIMENT; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NEOGLACIATION; SOIL EROSION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATOLOGY; DEBRIS; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICA; SNOW;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIOLOGY; HOLOCENE; ICE CAP; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAMINATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; SECULAR VARIATION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SILICA; SOIL EROSION; TEPHRA; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); HVITARVATN; ICELAND;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84858268435     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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