Natural and human-induced environmental changes in Eastern Europe during the Holocene: A multi-proxy palaeolimnological study of a small Latvian lake in a humid temperate zone

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 663-678

  Terasmaa, Jaanus ^a   Puusepp, Liisa ^a   Marzecová, Agáta ^a   Vandel, Egert ^a   Vaasma, Tiit ^a   Koff, Tiiu ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

CAT scan; Diatoms; Geochemistry; Grain size; Holocene; Lake level reconstruction; Macrofossils

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLY; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; GYTTJA; HOLOCENE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LATE GLACIAL; LITHOLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; PUPA; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

EASTERN EUROPE; LATVIA; VIDZEME;

AULACOSEIRA AMBIGUA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHAOBORIDAE; CYCLOSTEPHANOS DUBIUS; CYCLOTELLA; STEPHANODISCUS; TABELLARIA;

EID: 84875629439     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-013-9683-0     Document Type: Article

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