Testing climate-proxy stationarity throughout the Holocene: An example from the varved sediments of Lake Meerfelder Maar (Germany)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 58, Issue , 2012, Pages 56-65

  Martin Puertas, Celia ^a   Brauer, Achim ^a   Dulski, Peter ^a   Brademann, Brian ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate proxy stationarity; Micro element scanning; Multi proxy approach; Varved sediments

Indexed keywords

CENTENNIAL VARIABILITY; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUNTING ERRORS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; GEOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HOLOCENES; INTERGLACIAL PERIODS; LAST GLACIAL; LATE HOLOCENE; LONG-TERM CHANGES; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; MICRO-XRF; MICROFACIES; MULTI PROXIES; PROXY DATA; STATIONARITY; SUB-LAYERS; WATER CIRCULATION; WATER MIXING;

CATCHMENTS; LAKES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DETRITUS; DIATOM; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MICROFACIES; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; REWORKING; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SILICON; TITANIUM; VARVE;

GERMANY; MEERFELDER MAAR; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84868515768     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.023     Document Type: Article

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