Glacial and vegetation history of the Polar Ural Mountains in northern Russia during the Last Ice Age, Marine Isotope Stages 5-2

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 409-428

  Svendsen, John Inge ^a   Krüger, Linn Cecilie ^a   Mangerud, Jan ^a   Astakhov, Valery I ^b   Paus, Aage ^a   Nazarov, Dmitry ^b   Murray, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arctic Russia; Barents Kara Ice Sheet; Glaciation; Ice cap; Ice dammed lakes; Lake cores; OSL chronology; Paleoclimate; Pollen stratigraphy; Ural Mountains

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; LUMINESCENCE; SEDIMENTS; SNOW; STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

ARCTIC RUSSIA; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; ICE-CAPS; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; OSL CHRONOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATES; URAL MOUNTAINS;

LAKES;

CONIFEROUS TREE; DATING METHOD; DECIDUOUS TREE; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIATION; HOLOCENE; ICE CAP; ICE SHEET; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLEISTOCENE; POLAR REGION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; STRATIGRAPHY; TILL; TUNDRA; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BETULA; GEOLOGY; ICE; LAKES; MOUNTAINS; PLANTS; RUSSIA; SALIX; SEDIMENTS;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; URALS;

BETULA; PICEA; SALIX;

EID: 84900401043     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.008     Document Type: Article

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