Salt-marsh reconstructions of relative sea-level change in the North Atlantic during the last 2000 years

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 99, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-16

  Barlow, Natasha L M ^a   Long, Antony J ^a   Saher, Margot H ^b,e   Gehrels, W Roland ^b   Garnett, Mark H ^c   Scaife, Rob G ^d  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate; Diatoms; Foraminifera; North Atlantic; Salt marsh; Sea level; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL; STATISTICAL TESTS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CLIMATE; DIATOMS; FORAMINIFERA; NORTH ATLANTIC; SALT MARSHES;

WETLANDS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DATA SET; DIATOM; FORAMINIFERA; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84903640056     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.008     Document Type: Article

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