Climate and environmental change in the Balkans over the last 17 ka recorded in sediments from Lake Prespa (Albania/F.Y.R. of Macedonia/Greece)

Quaternary International

Volumn 274, Issue , 2012, Pages 122-135

  Aufgebauer, Anne ^a   Panagiotopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Wagner, Bernd ^a   Schaebitz, Frank ^a   Viehberg, Finn A ^a   Vogel, Hendrik ^a,b   Zanchetta, Giovanni ^c   Sulpizio, Roberto ^d   Leng, Melanie J ^e   Damaschke, Magret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^e BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ICE CAP; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LIMNOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WARMING; WATER COLUMN; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ALBANIA; BALKAN; GREECE; LAKE MIKRI PRESPA; MACEDONIA [GREECE]; TURKMENISTAN;

EID: 84865982086     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.02.015     Document Type: Article

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