Multi-proxy analyses of a peat bog on Isla de los Estados, easternmost Tierra del Fuego: A unique record of the variable Southern Hemisphere Westerlies since the last deglaciation

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-14

  Björck, Svante ^a   Rundgren, Mats ^a   Ljung, Karl ^a   Unkel, Ingmar ^a,b   Wallin, Åsa ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aeolian proxies; Holocene; Last deglaciation; Paleoclimate; Pollen analysis; South Atlantic; Southern Hemisphere Westerlies; Tierra del Fuego

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN PROXIES; DEGLACIATIONS; HOLOCENES; PALEOCLIMATES; POLLEN ANALYSIS; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TIERRA DEL FUEGO;

MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

PEAT;

CARBON ISOTOPE; EOLIAN PROCESS; HOLOCENE; HUMIFICATION; LAST DEGLACIATION; LITHOLOGY; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PEATLAND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPORE; WESTERLY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ARGENTINA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); STATEN ISLAND [TIERRA DEL FUEGO]; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(PRV) ARGENTINA]; WEST ANTARCTICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84859937240     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.03.015     Document Type: Article

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