© 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in The Netherlands. Pollen-stratigraphical evidence of Holocene hydrological change in northern Fennoscandia supported by independent isotopic data*

• Main Author: Dan Hammarlund
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Abisko; Arctic; Fennoscandia; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.575.8352; http://www.geol.lu.se/PERSONAL/DNH/images/SEP2000.pdf

Pollen records from 21 sites were used to reconstruct Holocene hydrological changes in northern Fennoscandia. The inferred dominance of maritime-type Betula-forests from c. 9600 BP onwards indicate an oceanic climate in the region during the early Holocene, with high amounts of precipitation and low...