Deglaciation chronology, sea-level changes and environmental changes from Holocene lake sediments of Germania Havn Sø, Sabine Ø, northeast Greenland

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-109

  Bennike, Ole ^a   Wagner, Bernd ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Deglaciation chronology; Greenland; Macrofossils; Paleoecology; Quaternary; Relative sea level changes

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATIONS; GREENLAND; MACROFOSSILS; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEDIMENTS;

LAKES;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FAUNA; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MELTWATER; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

APATANIA ZONELLA; BRYOPHYTA; CASSIOPE TETRAGONA; DRYAS OCTOPETALA; EMPETRUM NIGRUM; SALIX; SALIX ARCTICA; SALIX HERBACEA;

EID: 84862621279     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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