Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene vegetation history of northeastern Russian Arctic inferred from the Lake El'gygytgyn pollen record

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1017-1039

  Andreev, A A ^a   Tarasov, P E ^b   Wennrich, V ^a   Raschke, E ^c   Herzschuh, U ^d   Nowaczyk, N R ^e   Brigham Grette, J ^f   Melles, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; GLACIAL HISTORY; GREEN ALGA; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SPORE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ARCTIC; CHUKCHI; ELGYGYTGYN LAKE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84901450255     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-1017-2014     Document Type: Article

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