A deglacial and Holocene record of climate variability in south-central Alaska from stable oxygen isotopes and plant macrofossils in peat

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-11

  Jones, Miriam C ^a,b   Wooller, Matthew ^b,c   Peteet, Dorothy M ^d,e  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^e International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Aleutian Low; Carbon; Holocene; Oxygen isotopes; Peat

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN LOW; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HOLOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; HOLOCENES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SUMMER PRECIPITATION;

CARBON; CLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; WETLANDS;

PEAT;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOACCUMULATION; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PEAT; PLANT; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; TIMESCALE;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84892872623     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.12.025     Document Type: Article

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