Chronology of Lake El’gygytgyn sediments – A combined magnetostratigraphic, palaeoclimatic and orbital tuning study based on multi-parameter analyses

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2413-2432

  Nowaczyk, N R ^a   Haltia, E M ^a,e   Ulbricht, D ^a   Wennrich, V ^b   Sauerbrey, M A ^b   Rosen P ^c   Vogel, H ^b,f   Francke, A ^b   Meyer Jacob, C ^b,c   Andreev, A A ^b   Lozhkin, A V ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 85037679435     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-2413-2013     Document Type: Article

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