Abrupt holocene climate transitions in the northern north atlantic region recorded by synchronized lacustrine records in iceland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 48-62

  Geirsdóttir, Áslaug ^a   Miller, Gifford H ^a,b   Larsen, Darren J ^a,b   Ólafsdóttir, Sædís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

8.2 Event; Abrupt climate transitions; Holocene paleoclimate; Holocene Thermal Maximum; Iceland; Lake sediment; Little Ice Age; Medieval warm period; Neoglaciation

Indexed keywords

8.2 EVENTS; CLIMATE TRANSITION; HOLOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; ICELANDS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NEOGLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATES;

CATCHMENTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SILICA;

LAKES;

ACCUMULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL LAKE; HYPSITHERMAL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NEOGLACIAL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; SILICA; SYNCHRONY; TEPHRA; TIME SERIES; UPLAND REGION; VEGETATION COVER; VOLCANISM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); HAUKADALSVATN; HVITARVATN; ICELAND;

EID: 84876800046     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.03.010     Document Type: Article

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