The 1.5-ka varved record of Lake Montcortès (southern Pyrenees, NE Spain)

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 323-332

  Corella, Juan Pablo ^a,b   Brauer, Achim ^c   Mangili, Clara ^c,g   Rull, Valentí ^d   Vegas Vilarrúbia, Teresa ^e   Morellón, Mario ^a,f   Valero Garcés, Blas L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT BOTÀNIC DE BARCELONA IBB CSIC ICUB   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^g Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogenic varves; Climate changes; Human impact; Little Ice Age; Medieval Climate Anomaly; Pre Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC VARVES; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; HUMAN IMPACT; LITTLE ICE AGE; PRE-PYRENEES;

CALCITE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; RAIN; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

LAKES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; VARVE;

PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 84865348176     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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