Climate variability over the last 92 ka in SW Balkans from analysis of sediments from Lake Prespa

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 643-660

  Panagiotopoulos, K ^a   Bohm A ^a   Leng, M J ^b,c   Wagner, B ^a   Schabitz F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; CLIMATE VARIATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; MOUNTAIN REGION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION;

BALKAN; TURKMENISTAN;

EID: 84897423832     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-643-2014     Document Type: Article

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