A diatom-based palaeosalinity history of Ace Lake, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica

A comprehensive diatom stratigraphy is used to calculate a palaeosalinity history for an Antarctic lake via an established diatom-salinity transfer function for the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica. A sediment core taken from Ace Lake in 1995 shows three distinct changes in diatom assemblage constituents:...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Holocene
Main Authors: Roberts, Donna, McMinn, Andrew
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 1999
Subjects:
Paleontology
Earth-Surface Processes
Ecology
Archeology
Global and Planetary Change
Ace Lake
Antarctic
Vestfold
Vestfold Hills
Antarc*
Antarctica
Sea ice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/095968399671725699
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1191/095968399671725699

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