Holocene oxygen isotope record of diatoms from Lake Kotokel (southern Siberia, Russia) and its palaeoclimatic implications

Quaternary International

Volumn 290-291, Issue , 2013, Pages 21-34

  Kostrova, Svetlana S ^a   Meyer, Hanno ^b   Chapligin, Bernhard ^b   Kossler, Annette ^c   Bezrukova, Elena V ^a   Tarasov, Pavel E ^c  

^a ENERGY SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVAPORATION; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

BURYATIA; KOTOKEL LAKE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84875507714     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.05.011     Document Type: Article

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