High-latitude environmental change during MIS 9 and 11: Biogeochemical evidence from Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russia

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 567-581

  D'Anjou, R M ^a   Wei, J H ^a   Castaneda, I S ^a   Brigham Grette, J ^a   Petsch, S T ^a   Finkelstein, D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOMARKER; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTERGLACIAL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LATITUDE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION;

ARCTIC; CHUKCHI; ELGYGYTGYN LAKE; FAR EAST; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84880890635     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-567-2013     Document Type: Article

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