Major lake level fluctuations and climate changes for the past 16,000 years as reflected by diatoms and chironomids preserved in the sediment of Laguna Potrok Aike, southern Patagonia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 167-174

  Massaferro, J ^a   Recasens, C ^b   Larocque Tobler, I ^c   Zolitschka, B ^e   Maidana, N I ^d  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c LimnoPaleoServ ^*  (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chironomids; Diatoms; Holocene; Lateglacial; Paleoclimatic reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMIDS; DIATOMS; HOLOCENES; LATEGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER LEVELS;

LAKES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DIATOM; FLY; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LAKE LEVEL; LATE GLACIAL; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PRESERVATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RESOLUTION; SEMIARID REGION; STEPPE; WATER LEVEL;

ANTARCTICA; ARGENTINA; LAGUNA POTROK AIKE; SANTA CRUZ [ARGENTINA];

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 84878912435     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.07.026     Document Type: Article

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