Climate imprints during the 'Medieval Climate Anomaly' and the 'Little Ice Age' in marine records from the Alboran Sea basin

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1227-1237

  Nieto Moreno, V ^a,b,c   Martinez Ruiz, F ^b   Giralt, S ^d   Gallego Torres, D ^b,c   Garcia Orellana J ^e   Masque P ^e   Ortega Huertas, M ^c  

^a BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; 'Medieval Climate Anomaly'; 20th century; Alboran Sea basin; climate variability; marine sediments

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; HYDRODYNAMICS; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE RECORD; MARINE SEDIMENT; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; REDOX CONDITIONS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ALBORAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84881594645     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613484613     Document Type: Article

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