Late glacial and Holocene sedimentation, vegetation, and climate history from easternmost Beringia (northern Yukon Territory, Canada)

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 549-560

  Fritz, Michael ^a   Herzschuh, Ulrike ^a,b   Wetterich, Sebastian ^a   Lantuit, Hugues ^a   De Pascale, Gregory P ^c   Pollard, Wayne H ^d   Schirrmeister, Lutz ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Holocene thermal maximum; Lake sediments; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Modern analogue technique; Pollen; Precipitation reconstruction; Temperature reconstruction; Trout Lake; WAPLS; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

LAKE SEDIMENTS; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; MODERN ANALOGUE TECHNIQUES; POLLEN; PRECIPITATION RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; THERMAL MAXIMA; WAPLS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIERS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VEGETATION;

SEDIMENTS;

EVAPORATION; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LATE GLACIAL; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTATION; TUNDRA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CANADA; YUKON TERRITORY;

ALNUS; BETULA; SALIX; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84868002859     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.07.007     Document Type: Article

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