Comparing and cross-validating lake and bog palaeoclimatic records: A review and a new 5,000 year chironomid-inferred temperature record from northern England

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 497-512

  Barber, Keith ^a   Brown, Alastair ^a   Langdon, Peter ^a   Hughes, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chironomids; Climate change; Holocene; Northern Britain; Peat bogs; Tarns

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLY; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LITERATURE REVIEW; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PEATLAND; TIMESCALE;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 84875613508     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-012-9656-8     Document Type: Article

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