Climate variability and long-term expansion of peatlands in Arctic Norway during the late Pliocene (ODP Site 642, Norwegian Sea)

Climate of the Past

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1043-1060

  Panitz, Sina ^a   Salzmann, Ulrich ^a   Risebrobakken, Bjørg ^b   De Schepper, Stijn ^b   Pound, Matthew J ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; FOSSIL RECORD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PEATLAND; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA; SCANDINAVIA;

SPHAGNUM;

EID: 84965119367     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-1043-2016     Document Type: Article

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