Humification in northeast Australia: Dating millennial and centennial scale climate variability in the late Holocene

Holocene

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1707-1718

  Burrows, Mark A ^a   Fenner, Jack ^a   Haberle, Simon G ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

El Ni o Southern Oscillation; humification; Late Holocene; macrocharcoal; Southern Hemisphere; wet tropics

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATING METHOD; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; HUMIFICATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84918591753     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683614551216     Document Type: Article

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