A Holocene peat record in the central South Atlantic: An archive of precipitation changes

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Volumn 133, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 195-206

  Lindvall, Hanna ^a   Björck, Svante ^a   Holmgren, Sofia ^a   Ljung, Karl ^a   van der Putten, Nathalie ^a   Porter, Charles ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Patagonian Research Foundation   (Chile)

Author keywords

Holocene; Nightingale Island; peat; South Atlantic Ocean

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; HOLOCENE; HUMIDITY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ORGANIC NITROGEN; PALEOCLIMATE; PEAT; POND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WESTERLY; WETLAND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); NIGHTINGALE ISLAND; SAINT HELENA; TRISTAN DA CUNHA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84859051104     PISSN: 11035897     EISSN: 20000863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2011.633708     Document Type: Article

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