Late Quaternary climate in the southern foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska based on stable isotope analysis of lake sediment

• Main Author: Wilber, Adrienne Kathleen
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Carleton Digital Commons 2011
• Subjects: stable isotope; Brooks Range; paleolimnology; Chironomidae; Younger Dryas; Arctic; Selby; Climate change; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.carleton.edu/comps/764

Modern climate change is accelerated in the arctic. Moisture has played an integral role in shaping the arctic landscape and ecosystems during periods of warming. Paleoclimate studies on terrestrial materials help compare current climate shifts to those that occurred in the past and predict the effe...