Late-Holocene NAO and oceanic forcing on high-altitude proglacial sedimentation (Lake Bramant, Western French Alps)

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1163-1172

  Guyard, Hervé ^a,b,c   Chapron, Emmanuel ^d   St Onge, Guillaume ^a,b   Labrie, Jacques ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b GEOTOP Research Center   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

AMO; ITRAX; late Holocene; NAO; proglacial lake; wavelet; Western French Alps

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

ALPS; FRANCE; ISERE; LAKE BRAMANT; RHONE-ALPES;

EID: 84879823037     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613483616     Document Type: Article

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